Ernest Emenyo̲nu

Maureen N. Eke

Emerging Perspectives on Nawal El Saadawi

A Configuration of Revolutionary Black Women Dramatists (Nigeria, South Africa, and the United States)

Some of Us are Brave

A shorter version of this paper was presented at the 1991 African Literature Association Conference in New Orleans. The paper attempts to explore black South African women's representation of their experience, apartheid, and gender marginalization. The author acknowledges that while there are other anthologies of stories, the current collection is unique because, as the publishers indicate, it represents the work of women "who though knowing that they had the skill to write, had never dreamed that they would actually put it all in print" (Seriti Sechaba Publishers 1988:5). Moreover, the work gives these women an occasion to present the other side of the anti-apartheid liberation story, different from that often articulated by male writers.

Women and Liberation in New Writings by Black South African Women

From the Heart

With contributions from a distinguished set of literary scholars, Ernest Emenyonu and Maureen N. Eke's collection is a useful guide for both scholarly and general readers of Saadawi's work, giving them an understanding of her contents, style and narrative technique as well as her feminist vision and activism. Saadawi's concern for the women of the Arab world has progressively blossomed into a concern for the struggles of women the world over - the underprivileged, the subaltern and the disenfranchised. She aptly describes herself as a socialist feminist'.'

Ada Uzoamaka Azodo

This edited work explores how literature and film interact with political, economic and social life in Africa.

Maureen N. Eke

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