Gender voices and choices : redefining women in contemporary African fiction /
Gender voices & choices
Gloria Chineze Chukukere.
- Enugu, Nigeria : Fourth Dimension Pub. Co., 1995.
- 341 p. ; 21 cm.
Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Lagos.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 318-331) and index.
The role of African women in life and literature -- Onitsha market literature : the chapbook heroine -- Cyprian Ekwensi : a socially conditioned perception -- The elevated heroine -- Flora Nwapa : the women's vulnerability and her search for options -- Buchi Emecheta : the yoke of womanhood -- Grace Ogot : the East African perspective -- Bessie Head : the alienated heroine.
978156380X
B-23045
96210344
African fiction (English)--Women authors--History and criticism. Women and literature--History--Africa--20th century. Sex role in literature. Women in literature.