EN 221 Literature of African Peoples: Books

"African Women Writing Resistance" is the first transnational anthology to focus on women's strategies of resistance to the challenges they face in Africa today. Thematically organized, it presents women s writing on such issues as intertribal and interethnic conflicts, the degradation of the environment, polygamy, domestic abuse, the controversial traditional practice of female genital cutting, Sharia law, intergenerational tensions, and emigration and exile.

Several hundred A-Z entries cover Achebe's major works, important characters and settings, key concepts and issues, and more.

Students, scholars, and general readers wishing to consider issues of gender in relation to African cultural and socioeconomic systems and what Salami-Boukari interrogates and names as an 'African worldview,' will find the interdisciplinary discussion of historical analyses, literary criticism and gender discourses a useful method for engaging contemporary African perspectives.