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CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC BOOK!
Rebellious Women: The New
Generation of Female African Novelists
Odile Cazenave
“Cazenave’s work is theoretically solid yet will be accessible to a wide
range of readers who are interested in learning more about these women
and their writing, their motivations and their impact.”
—ELIZABETH BLAKESLEY LINDSAY, H-NET
“Cazenave reveals a new generation of female writers with a more deliberate
feminist agenda and a more militant rhetoric.... nicely balancing
synopses of individual works and critical analysis of themes and tendencies
... very valuable.” —CHOICE
“Cazenave provides an original and enlightening investigation of the forbidden
territories both of the conflictual relationship of parents/children
and of the female body.... [She] dispels the ideological fallacy that
women’s writing is material for ‘victim’s studies’ and conveys rather a
revealing vision of the complexity of African women’s lives in contemporary
Africa.”
—ELISABETH MUDIMBE-BOYI,
RESEARCH IN AFRICAN LITERATURES
“Scholars and students of African literature will find Cazenave’s rich
work on the new generation of African women writers, and on the
process of writing in the feminine, quite illuminating and impressive in
both the detail of the analysis and the breadth of the thesis.”
—RUTH OHAYON,
FRENCH REVIEW
Through its rich analysis of new female voices, Rebellious Women
establishes the innovativeness and central position of women’s
writing in contemporary African literature.
Odile Cazenave is visiting associate professor of francophone
literature at MIT.
paperback 2001/260 pages LC: 99-34821
ISBN: 0-89410-884-0 hc £41.95 / $55
ISBN: 0-89410-892-1 pb £14.95 / $19.95
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