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Part of the series Library of modern Middle East studies 94;Library of modern Middle East studies 94.
Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Introduction. Scope, rationale and aims Research and methodological contexts Organization of the book — The triumph of the muzzled. Introduction A mirror of mutations and syncretisms Denouncing the postcolonial socio-political malaise The female character as an agent de rupture — The representation of the subaltern and importance of community : Leila Abouzeid’s Year of the elephant. Introduction Naissance of Year of the elephant The representation of the subaltern Leila Abouzeid’s sense of identity The community’s restorative potential Conclusion — Is every woman’s name Wound : resistance and self-fulfilment in Assia Djebar’s A sister to Scheherazade. Introduction Oppression in A sister to Scheherazade Is every woman’s name wound : defiance and self-affirmation Conclusion — Women’s life-writing : the sense of geographic, cultural and social displacement in Souad Guellouz’s La vie simple. Introduction Place and displacement Maternal linkages and female solidarity Class, society and archaism The difficulty of developing a positive self-image Expressing the self Conclusion.

Subjects:

• Djebar, Assia, 1936- — Criticism and interpretation.
• Abū Zayd, Laylá, 1950- — Criticism and interpretation.
• Guellouz, Soûad, 1937- — Criticism and interpretation.
• North African literature — Women authors — History and criticism.
• Postcolonialism in literature.
• Feminism in literature.

Requested by Wanyama, M., Koehler, B.

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Part of the series Women in Africa and the diaspora;Women in Africa and the diaspora.
Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-325) and index.
• Foreword : a song in seven stanzas for our granddaughters / Abena P.A. Busia (Ghana) — African women writing resistance : an introduction / Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez, with Pauline Dongala, Omotayo Jolaosho, Anne Serafin — Pt.1 Engaging with tradition : The day when God changed his mind / Eve Zvichanzi Nyemba (Zimbabwe) — The old woman / J. Tsitsi Mutit (Zimbabwe) — Interview with Kaya a Mbaya (Congo), a Babongo woman / Pierre Piya-Bouanga (Congo-Brazzaville) — Interview with Elisabeth Bouanga (Congo-Brazzaville) : remembrance of things past / Pauine Dongala (Congo-Brazzaville) — Pt.2 Speaking out : young women on sexuality : Women weep no more / Sibongile Mtungwa (South Africa) — Letters to my cousin / Catherine Makoni (Zimbabwe) — Story of faith / Mamle Kabu (Ghana) — Lovesung for a father, with poet’s note / Zindzi Bedu (Nigeria) — It’s not rape if… / Ann Kithaka (Kenya) — To be or not to be a lesbian : the dilemma of Cameroon’s women soccer players / Sybille Ngo Nyeck (Cameroon) — My name is Kasha / Kasha N. Jacqueline (Uganda) — Cosmo Africa and other poems / Cheshe Dow (Botswana) — Pt.3 Challenging the institution of marriage : Child / Ann Kithaka (Kenya) — Hailstones on Zamfara / Sefi Atta (Nigeria) — The good woman / Patricia Chogugudza (Zimbabwe) — Ngomwa / Ellen Mulenga Banda-Aaku (Zambia) — They came in the morning / Iheoma Obibi (Nigeria) — The battle of the worlds : oratory as women’s tool of resistance to the challenges of polygamy in contemporary Wolof society / Marame Gueye (Senegal) — Pt.4 Focusing on survival : women’s health issues : Tell me why : two poems / Ann Kithaka (Kenya) — Surviving me / Janine Lewis (South Africa) — The struggle to end the practice of female genital mutilation / Nawal el Saadwai (Egypt) — Slow poison / Makuchi (Juliana Nfah-Abbenyi) (Cameroon) — Just keep talking : two poems / Cheshe Dow (Botswana) — Tell me a lie / Ann Kithaka (Kenya) — Prayers and meditation heal despair / Pauline Dongala (Congo-Brazzaville) — Pt.5 Taking a stand : wom
• This work is a transnational anthology that focuses on women’s strategies of resistance to the challenges they face in Africa today. The anthology brings together personal narratives, testimony, interviews, short stories, poetry, performance scripts, folktales, and lyrics. 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. Contributors include internationally recognized authors and activists such as Wangari Maathai and Nawal El Saadawi, as well as a host of new voices from all over the African continent and from the African diaspora. Interdisciplinary in scope, this collection provides an introduction to contemporary African women’s literature and highlights social issues that are particular to Africa but are also of worldwide concern.

Subjects:

• African literature — Women authors — 21st century.
• Women authors, African.
• Women — Social conditions — Sources.

Requested by Nelson, J.A & Wanyama, M

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• Includes bibliographical references (341-343) and index.
• pt. I. Politics with Chinese characteristics. Listen carefully to the voices of the Tiananmen mothers Poem: Your seventeen years Poem: Standing amid the execrations of time To change a regime by changing a society The land manifestos of Chinese farmers Xidan democracy wall and China’s enlightenment The spiritual landscape of the urban young in post-totalitarian China Poem: What one can bear Poem: A knife slid into the world Bellicose and thuggish State ownership of land is the authorities’ magic wand for forced eviction A deeper look into why child slavery in China’s black kilns could matter The significance of the Weng’an incident — pt. II. Culture and society. Epilogue to Chinese politics and China’s modern intellectuals On living with dignity in China Poem: Looking up at Jesus Elegy to Lin Zhao, lone voice of Chinese freedom Ba Jin Poem: Alone in winter Poem: Van Gogh and you The erotic carnival in recent Chinese history Poem: Your lifelong prisoner From Wang Shuo’s wicked satire to Hu Ge’s Egao Yesterday’s stray dog becomes today’s guard dog Poem: My puppy’s death Long live the Internet Imprisoning people for words and the power of public opinion — pt. III. China and the world. Behind the China miracle Behind the rise of the great powers Poem: To St. Augustine Poem: Hats off to Kant The Communist party’s Olympic gold medal syndrome Hong Kong ten years after the handover So long as Han Chinese have no freedom, Tibetans will have no autonomy Poem: One morning Poem: Distance Obama’s election, the Republican factor, and a proposal for China — pt. IV. Documents. The June Second hunger strike declaration Poem: You · Ghosts · The defeated A letter to Liao Yiwu Poem: Feet so cold, so small Using truth to undermine a system built on lies Charter 08 My self-defense I have no enemies The criminal verdict.

Subjects:

• Chinese essays — 21st century.
• Essays — 21st century.
• Chinese poetry — 21st century.

Requested by Underhill, J