The Nation Writ Small: African Fictions and Feminisms, 1958-1988 by Susan Z. And

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Challenging the notion that Africas first women novelists were uninterested in postcolonial politics, Susan Z. Andrade shows that in their allegorical fiction, the family stood for the nation.

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In The Nation Writ Small, Susan Z. Andrade focuses on the work of Africa's first post-independence generation of novelists, explaining why male writers came to be seen as the voice of Africa's new nation-states, and why African women writers' commentary on national politics was overlooked. Since Africa's early female novelists tended to write about the family, while male authors often explicitly addressed national politics, it was assumed that the women writers were uninterested in the nation and the public sphere. Challenging that notion, Andrade argues that the female authors engaged national politics through allegory. In their work, the family stands for the nation; it is the nation writ small. Interpreting fiction by women, as well as several feminist male authors, she analyzes novels by Flora Nwapa and Buchi Emecheta (Nigeria); novellas by Ousmane Sembene, Mariama Ba, and Aminata Sow Fall (Senegal); and bildungsromans by Tsitsi Dangarembga (Zimbabwe), Nuruddin Farah (Somalia), and Assia Djebar (Algeria). Andrade reveals the influence of Africa's early women novelists on later generations of female authors, and she highlights the moment when African women began to write about macropolitics explicitly rather than allegorically.

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Focuses on the work of Africa's first post-independence generation of novelists

Author Biography

Susan Z. Andrade is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh and the co-editor of Atlantic Cross-Currents/Transatlantiques (Africa World Press, 2001).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments viiIntroduction 11. The Joys of Daughterhood: Achebe, Nwapa, Emecheta 442. The Loved and the Left: Sembne, Bâ, Sow Fall 713. Bildung in Formation and Deformation: Dangarembga and Farah 1144. Bildung at Its Boundaries: Djebar, Two Ways 165Conclusion 202Selected Chronology of African Novels 209Notes 213References 239Index 253

Review

"The Nation Writ Small is a brilliant work, feminist and literary scholarship of the highest order. It is a superb reading of the relationship between gender and nationalism in postcolonial African literature and culture, based on Susan Z. Andrade's deep knowledge African texts and cultural politics." Simon Gikandi, Princeton University "Susan Z. Andrade brings new levels of nuance and complexity to bear on issues that have preoccupied, if not obsessed, readers of African women writers: Are they feminist? And are they nationalist? Andrade dismantles these questions, studies their component parts, and reassembles them with finesse and insight."--Christopher L. Miller, author of The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade "Andrade hopes to change our reception ofAfrican women writers-much in the way that ptominent feminists have recently voiced public critiques about how the work of women writers in the US is published, marketed, and read (they've had the statistics to back them up tha!ks in part to the organization VIDA, which in 2010 began publishing "counts" on its website, wwwvidaweb.org, of the disparities between the numbers of female and male authors published and reviewed in high-profile venues). As the novelist Meg Wolitzer observed in the Apnl 1, 2012 issue of the New York Times Book Review, "the top tier of literary fiction-where the air is rich and the view is great and where a book enters the public imagination and the current conversation-tends to feel peculiarly, disproportionately male." And!ade's scholarship reminds us that this top tier seems to reproduce itself in many different settings and with lasting consequences, wherever you look." Heather Hewett, Women's Review of Books, July 2012

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Focuses on the work of Africa's first post-independence generation of novelists

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"The Nation Writ Small is retrospective feminist literary historiography at its best, and certainly at its most elegant.... Andrade is a must-have for any library with holdings in Africana and comparative literature, and should be essential reading for anybody studying and teaching African literatures. But before this sounds like yet another literary chore: The Nation Writ Small simply makes for great reading."

Details ISBN0822349213 Author Susan Z. Andrade Short Title NATION WRIT SMALL Language English ISBN-10 0822349213 ISBN-13 9780822349211 Media Book Format Paperback Publisher Duke University Press Year 2011 Imprint Duke University Press Place of Publication North Carolina Country of Publication United States Illustrations 1 photograph UK Release Date 2011-11-02 AU Release Date 2011-11-02 NZ Release Date 2011-11-02 US Release Date 2011-11-02 Pages 272 Publication Date 2011-11-02 DEWEY 809.899287 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Subtitle African Fictions and Feminisms, 1958-1988 We've got this

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