Africa writes back to self : metafiction, gender, sexuality /

Mwangi, Evan.

Africa writes back to self : metafiction, gender, sexuality / Evan Maina Mwangi. - Albany : State University of New York Press, c2009. - xiv, 346 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-320) and index.

Introduction : Writing Back to Self -- Genealogies and Functions of Self-Reflexive Fiction -- (En)countering Sex in the Nationalist Canon -- Potentials and Pitfalls of National Language Literatures -- Orature and Deconstructed Folklore -- Politicized Palimpsests and Gendered Intertexts --Painted Metaphors : The Gendered Deployment of Visual Arts -- Refiguring (Out) Queer Sexualities -- Gendered Theoretical Recalibrations.

9781438426815 (hardcover : alk. paper) 143842681X (hardcover : alk. paper)

2009005428


African fiction (English)--History and criticism.
Self in literature.
Self-perception in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Sex in literature.

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