Bibliography of Feminist Criticism
in French and English of African Literatures
By Sharon Verba
From Farah to Onwueme
Adan, Amina H. "Women and Words." Ufahamu: Journal of the African Activist Association. 10.3 (1981): 115-42.
Cobham, Rhonda. "Boundaries of the Nation: Boundaries of the Self: African Nationalist Fictions and Nuruddin Farah's Maps." Research in African Literatures. 22.2 (1991): 83-98.
Kelly, Hilarie. "A Somali Tragedy of Political and Sexual Confusion: A Critical Analysis of Nuruddin Farah's Maps." Ufahamu: Journal of African Activist Association. 16.2 (1988): 21-37.
Moore, G.H.. "Nomads and Feminists: The Novels of Nuruddin Farah." International Fiction Review. 11.1 (1984): 3-12.
Okonkwo, J.I. "Nuruddin Farah and the Changing Roles of Women." World Literature Today. 58.2 (1984): 215-221.
Wright, Derek. "Fabling the Feminine in Nuruddin Farah's Novels." Essays on African Writing 1: A Re-evaluation. Oxford: Heinemann, 1993. 70-87.
---- "Requiems for Revolutions: Race-Sex Archetypes in Two African Novels." MFS: Modern Fiction Studies. 35.1 (1989): 55-68.
Blumberg, Marcia. "Women Journeying at the South African Margins: Athol Fugard's The Road to Mecca." Matatu. 11 (1994): 39-50.
Bowker, Veronica. "The Evolution of Critical Responses to Fugard's Work, Culminating in a Feminist Reading of The Road to Mecca." Literator: Tydskrif vir Besondere en Vergelykende Taal en Literatuurstudie Journal of Literary Criticism. 11.2 (1990): 1-16.
de Reuck, Jenny. "Race and Gender: A Study of the Artistic Corruption of Peceval Gibbon's Souls in Bondage." Journal of Literary Studies Tydskrif Vir Literaturwetenskap. 4.1 (1988): 38-48.
Gordon, Jennifer. "Dreams of a Common Language: Nadine Gordimer's July's People." African Literature Today. 15 (1987): 102-108.
Henley, Ann. "'Space for Herself': Nadine Gordimer's A Sport of Nature and Josephine Humphrey's Rich in Love." Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies. 13.1 (1992): 81-9.
Lazar, Karen. "Feminism as 'Piffling'? Ambiguities in Nadine Gordimer's Short Stories." The Later Fiction of Nadine Gordimer. Ed. Bruce King. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993. 213-27.
---- "Jump and Other Short Stories: Gordimer's Leap into the 1990s: Gender and Politics in Her Latest Short Fiction." Journal of Southern African Studies. 18.4 (1992): 783-802. Rpt. in South African Feminisms:Writing, Theory and Criticism. Ed. M.J. Daymond. New York: Garland Publishing, 1995. 281-300.
---- "'Something Out There'/ Something in There: Gender and Politics in Gordimer's Novella." English in Africa. 19.1 (1992): 53-65.
Read, Daphne Frances. Rereading Burger's Daughter: A Feminist Deconstruction. Diss. York University, 1987. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI, 1988.
Treiber, Jeanette. The Construction of Identity and Representation of Gender in Four African Novels. Diss. University of California, Davis, 1992. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI, 1992. DA9232867.
Wagner, Kathrin M.. Rereading Nadine Gordimer. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994.
Yelin, Louise. "Exiled In and Exiled From: The Politics and Poetics of Burger's Daughter." Women's Writing in Exile. Ed. Mary Lynn Broe and Angela Ingram. Chapel Hill, NC: University of Norht Carolina Press, 1989. 396-411.
---- "Problems of Gordimer's Poetics: Dialogue in Burger's Daughter." Feminism, Bakhtin and the Dialogic. Ed. Dale M. Bauer and Susan Jaret McKinstry. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1991. 219-38.
Desai, Gaurav and David Chioni Moore. "Feminism and an Arab Humanism: An Interview with Nawal El Saadawi and Sherif Hetata March 2, 1993." SAPINA Bulletin. 5.1 (1993): 28-51.
Balseiro, Isabel. Nation, Race, and Gender in the Writings of Bessie Head and Rosario Ferre. Diss. New York University, 1992. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI. DA9237923.
Bazin, Nancy Topping. "Feminist Perspectives in African Fiction: Bessie Head and Buchi Emecheta." Black Scholar. 17.2 (1986): 34-40.
---- "Venturing into Feminist Consciousness: Bessie Head and Buchi Emecheta." The Tragic Life: Bessie Head and Literature in Southern Africa. Ed. Cecil Abrahams. Trenton: Africa World Press, 1990. 45-58.
Beard, Linda Susan. "Bessie Head's Syncretic Fictions: The Reconceptualization of Power and the Recovery of the Ordinary." MFS: Modern Fiction Studies. 37.3 (1991): 575-89.
Chetin, Sarah. "Myth, Exile, and the Female Condition: Bessie Head's The Collector of Treasures." Journal of Commonwealth Literature. 24.1 (1989): 114-137.
Daymond, M.J.. "Inventing Gendered Traditions: The Short Stories of Bessie Head and Miriam Tlali." South African Feminisms: Writing, Theory, and Criticism 1990-1994. Ed. M.J. Daymond. New York: Garland Publishing, 1996. 223-240.
Dlamini, L.Z. . "Liberating the Male and Female Consciousness: The Novels of Bessie Head." UNISWA Research Journal. 7 (Dec. 1993): 55-60.
Dovey, Teresa. "A Question of Power: Susan Gardner's Biography versus Bessie Head's Autobiography." English in Africa. 16.1 (1989): 29-38.
Driver, Dorothy. "Reconstructing the Past, Shaping the Future: Bessie Head and the Question of Feminism in a New South Africa." Black Women's Writing. Ed. Gina Wisker. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993. 160-87.
Flewellen, Elinor C.. "Assertiveness vs. Submissiveness in Selected Works by African Women Writers." Ba Shiru. 12.2 (1985): 3-18.
Gardner, Susan. "'Don't Ask for the True Story': A Memoir of Bessie Head." Hecate. 12.1-2 (1986): 110-29.
Jagne, Siga Fatima. African Women and the Category 'Woman': Through the Works of Mariama Ba and Bessie Head. Diss. State University of New York, Binghamton, 1994. Ann Arbor: UMI, 1995. DA9513805.
Ibrahim, Huma. Bessie Head: A Third World Woman Writer in Exile. Diss. Indiana University, 1988. Ann Arbor: UMI, 1989. AAC 8824163.
Lorenz, Paul H.. "Colonization and the Feminine in Bessie Head's A Question of Power." MFS: Modern Fiction Studies. 37.3 (1991): 591-605.
Katrak, Ketu H. "Alien-Homes: Postcolonial Women's Spaces and the Politics of Location." Resources for Feminist Research/ Documentation sur la recherche feministe. 22.3-4 (1993): 51-6.
Kemp, Yakini. "Romantic Love and the Individual in Novels By Mariama Ba, Buchi Emecheta, and Bessie Head." Obsidian II: Black Literature in Review. 3.3 (1988): 1-16.
Ola, Virginia U. "Women's Role in Bessie Head's Ideal World." Ariel. 17.4 (1986): 39-47.
Phillips, Maggi. "Engaging Dreams: Alternative Perspectives on Flora Nwapa, Buchi Emecheta, Ama Ata Aidoo, Bessie Head, and Tsitsi Dangarembga's Writing." Research in African Literatures. 25.4 (1994): 89-103.
Sample, Maxine J. Cornish. The Representation of Space in Selected Works by Bessie Head, Buchi Emecheta, and Flora Nwapa. Diss. Emory University, 1990. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI, 1990. AAC 9027938.
Sarvan, Charles Ponnwthuai. "Bessie Head: A Question of Power and Identity." African Literature Today. 15 (1987): 82-88.
Tucker, Margaret E. "A 'Nice-time Girl' Strikes Back: An Essay of Bessie Head's A Question of Power." Research in African Literatures. 19.2 (1988): 170-81.
Interviews:
Head, Bessie.Between the Lines: Interviews with Bessie Head, Sheila Roberts, Ellen Kuzwayo, Miriam Tlali. Ed. by Craig MacKenzie and Cherry Clayton. Grahamstown: National English Literary Museum, 1989.
---- "Bessie Head in Gaborone, Botswana: an interview." Interview by Linda Susan Beard. Sage. 3 (Fall 1986): 44-7.
Rooney, Caroline. "Re-Possessions: Inheritance and Independence in Chenjerai Hove's Bones and Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions." Essays on African Writing 2: Contemporary Literature. Ed. Abdulrazak Gurnah. Oxford: Heinemann, 1995. 119-143.
Zhuwarara, R.. "Men and Women in a Colonial Context: A Discourse on Gender and Liberation in Chenjerai Hove's 1989 Noma Award-Winning Novel, Bones." Zambezia. 21.1 (1994): 1-21.
Veit-Wild, Flora. "'Dances with Bones': Hove's Romanticized Africa." Research in African Literatures. 24.3 (1993): 5-12.
Alabi, Adetayo. "Feminism and Literary Criticism: A Comparative Reading of Iyayi's Novels." Liwuram. 4-5 (1988-89): 274-91.
Cazenave, Odile. "Gender, Age, and Narrative Transformations in L'Enfant de sable by Tahar Ben Jelloun." The French Review. 64.3 (1991): 437-50.
Flockemann, Miki. "'Not-Quite Insiders and Not-Quite Outsiders': The 'Process of Womanhood' in Becka Lamb, Nervous Conditions and Daughters of the Twilight." The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. 27.1 (1992): 37-47.
Kandji, Diouf. "Des calvaires de la femme africaine dans la creation romanesque de Buchi Emecheta, Flora Nwapa, Ngugi Wa Thiongo et Ahmadou Kourouma." Bridges: An African Journal of English Studies/Revue Africaine d'Etudes. 4 (December 1992): 113-33.
van der Merwe, P.P. "A Poet's Commitment: Antjie Krog's Lady Anne." Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa 2, 1990. Rpt. in South African Feminisms:Writing, Theory and Criticism. Ed. M.J. Daymond. New York: Garland Publishing, 1995. 259-279.
van Rooyen, Gertina Cornelia. From Compulsion to Reconciliation: A Feministic Reading of the Poetry of Antjie Krog. Diss. University of Pretoria, 1992. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI, 1992.
Coullie, Judith Lutge. "The Space Between Frames: A New Discursive Practice in Ellen Kuzwayo's Call Me Woman." South African Feminisms: Writing, Theory, and Criticism 1990-1994. Ed. M.J. Daymond. New York: Garland Publishing, 1996. 131-153.
Dietche, Julie Phelps. "Voyaging Towards Freedom: New Voices from South Africa." Research in African Literatures. 26.1 (1995): 61-74.
Elder, Arlene A. " '... Who Can Take the Multitude and Lock It in a Cage?': Noemia de Sousa, Micere Mugo, Ellen Kuzwayo: Three African Women's Voices of Resistance." Matatu: Journal for African Culture and Society. 3.6 (1989): 77-100.
Interviews:
Kuzwayo, Ellen. Between the Lines: Interviews with Bessie Head, Sheila Roberts, Ellen Kuzwayo, Miriam Tlali. Ed. by Craig MacKenzie and Cherry Clayton. Grahamstown: National English Literary Museum, 1989.
Still, Judith. "Body and Culture: The Representation of Sexual, Racial and Class Differences in Lachmet's Le Cowboy." Contemporary French Fiction by Women: Feminist Perspectives. Ed. Margaret Atack and Phil Powrie. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990. 71-83.
---- "Djanet Lachmet's Le Cowboy: Constructing Self-- Arab and Female." Paragraph: A Journal of Modern Critical Theory. 8 (1986): 55-61.
Layiwola, Dele. "Womanism in Nigerian Folklore and Drama." African Notes: Journal of the Institute of African Studies. 11.1 (1987): 27-33.
Betrand, Brenda. "Gender and Spirituality: Initiation into the Kore in Camera Laye's Le Regard du roi." The French Review. 67.4 (1994): 648-61.
Jaccard, Anny-Claire. "Meres aimantes, meres devorantes chez Camara Laye et chez Albert Memmi." Notre Librairie 95 (1988): 64-68.
Julien, Eileen. "Avatars of the Feminine in Laye, Senghor and Diop." From Dante to Garcia Marquez: Studies in Romance Literatures and Linguistics. Gene H. Bell-Villada, Antonio Gimenez, and George Pistorius. Williamstown, MA: Williams College, 1987. 336-48.
Woodward, Wendy. "Metonymies of Colonialism in Four Handsome Negresses by Ethelreda Lewis." Current Writing 2.1 (1990): 147-61. Rpt. in South African Feminisms:Writing, Theory and Criticism. Ed. M.J. Daymond. New York: Garland Publishing, 1995. 207-222.
Adams, Anne. "To Write in a New Language: Werewere Liking's Adaptation of Ritual to the Novel." Callaloo. 16.1 (1993): 153-68.
d'Almeida, Irene Assiba. "Echoes of Orpheus in Werewere Liking's Orphee-Dafric and Wole Soyinka's Season of Anomy." Comparative Literature Studies. 31.1 (1994): 52-71.
---- "The Intertext: Werewere Liking's Tool for Transformation and Renewal." Postcolonial Subjects: Francophone Women Writers. Ed. Mary Jean Green, Karen Gould, Maximin Rice, Keith Walker, and Jack Yeager. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996. 265-84.
Briere, Eloise A.. "Problematique de la parole: Le cas des Camerounaises." L'Esprit Createur. 33.2 (1993); 95-106.
Interviews:
Liking, Werewere. "A la recontre de ... Werewere Liking." Interview by Bernard Magnier. Notre Librairie. 79 (1985): 17-21.
---- "La femme par qui le scandale arrive." Interview by Sennen Andriamirado. Jeune Afrique. 1172 (22 June 1983): 68-70.
---- "Le 'vivre vrai' de Werewere Liking." Interview by Christine Pillot. Notre Librairie. (July/August 1990): 54-58.
---- "Werewere Liking: Creatice, prolifique et novatrice." Interview by David Nadchi Tagne. Notre Librairie. 99 (1989): 194-96.
Graves, Anne Adams. "The Work of Henri Lopes: A Forum for African Women's Consciousness." Ngambika: Studies of Women in African Literature. Ed. Carole Boyce Davies and Anne Adams Graves. Trenton, NJ: Africa World, 1986. 131-38.
Ibrahim, Huma. "The Violated Universe: Neo-Colonial Sexual and Political Consciousness in Dambudzo Marachera." Reserch in African Literatures. 21.2 (1990): 70-90.
Dietche, Julie Phelps. "Voyaging Towards Freedom: New Voices from South Africa." Research in African Literatures. 26.1 (1995): 61-74.
Takieddine-Amyuni, M. "Images of Arab Women in "Midaq Alley" by Naguib Mahfouz, and Seasons of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih." International Journal of Middle East Studies 17.1 (1985): 25-36.
Cooke, Miriam. "Naguib Mahfouz, Men, and the Egyptian Underworld." Fictions of Masculinity: Crossing Cultures, Crossing Sexualities. Ed. Peter F. Murphy. New York: New York University Press, 1994. 96-120.
El-Sheikh, Ibrahim. "Egyptian Women as Portrayed in the Social Novels of Najib Mahfuz." Critical Perspective on Naguib Mahfouz. Ed. Trevor Le Gassick. Washington, DC: Three Continents, 1991. 85-99.
Brahimi, Denise. "Awa Thiam et Fatima Mernissi: Negro-Africaines et Arabo-Musulmanes." Notre Librairie. 95 (1988): 69-73.
Lang, George. "Jihad, Ijtihad, and Other Dialogical Wars in La Mere du Printemps, Le Harem politique, and Loin de Medine." The Marabout and the Muse: New Approaches to Islam in African Literature. Ed. Kenneth W. Harrow. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1996. 1-22.
Woodhull, Winnifred. "Feminism and Islamic Tradition." Studies in Twentieth Century Literature. 17.1 (1993): 27-44.
Metelerkamp, Joan. "Ruth Miller: Father's Law or Mother Lore." Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa. 2 (1990). Rpt. in South African Feminisms: Writing, Theory and Criticism. Ed. M.J. Daymond. New York: Garland Publishing, 1995. 241-258.
Clayton, Cherry. "Women Writers and the Law of the Father: Race and Gender in the Fiction of Olive Screiner, Pauline Smith and Sarah Gertrude Millin." English Academy Review. 7 (1990): 99-117.
de Reuck, J. A.."Humour and Betrayal: Reading the 'Alita' Short Stories of Sarah Gertrude Millin." English Studies in Africa: A Journal of the Humanities. 30.2 (1987): 83-90.
Dietche, Julie Phelps. "Voyaging Towards Freedom: New Voices from South Africa." Research in African Literatures. 26.1 (1995): 61-74.
Elder, Arlene A. " '... Who Can Take the Multitude and Lock It in a Cage?': Noemia de Sousa, Micere Mugo, Ellen Kuzwayo: Three African Women's Voices of Resistance." Matatu: Journal for African Culture and Society. 3.6 (1989): 77-100.
Interviews:
Mugo, Micere. "Interview with Micere Githae-Mugo." Interview by Brenda Berrian. World Literature Written in English. 21.3 (1982): 521-31.
----"Women in Africa." Interview by Adewale Maja Pearce. Index on Censorship. 19.1 (1990): 19-20.
Balisidya, Ndyanao May L. "The Construction of Sex and Gender Roles in Penina Muhando's Works." Sage. 5.1 (1988): 15-20.
Farred, Grant. "'Not Like Women at All': Black Female Subjectivity in Lauretta Ngcobo's And They Didn't Die." Genders. 16 (Spring 1993): 94-112.
Hunter, Eva. "'We Have to Defend Ourselves': Women, Tradition, and Change in Lauretta Ngcobo's And They Didn't Die." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature. 13.1 (1994): 113-26.
Interviews:
Ngcobo, Lauretta. "Some Thoughts on South Africa, 1992: Interview with Lauretta Ngcobo." Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa. 4.1 (1992): 85-97.
Steinberg, Carol. "Now is the Time for Feminist Criticism: A Review of 'Asinamali'." South African Theatre Journal. 5.2 (1991): 22-39. Rpt. in South African Feminisms:Writing, Theory and Criticism. Ed. M.J. Daymond. New York: Garland Publishing, 1995. 313-326.
Boehmer, Elleke. "The Master's Dance to the Master's Voice: Revolutionary Nationalism and the Representation of Women in the Writing of Ngugi wa Thiong'o." The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. 26.1 (1991): 188-97.
Evans, Jennifer. "Mother Africa and the Heroic Whore: Female Images in Petals of Blood." Contemporary African Fiction. Ed. Hal Wylie, Eileen Julien and Russell J. Linnemann. Washington, DC: Three Continents Press, 1983. 57-66.
Hazeley, Izamide. "Ngugi's Images of Women." West Africa. 3457 (Nov. 14, 1983): 2630, 2632.
Kandji, Diouf. "Des calvaires de la femme africaine dans la creation romanesque de Buchi Emecheta, Flora Nwapa, Ngugi Wa Thiongo et Ahmadou Kourouma." Bridges: An African Journal of English Studies/Revue Africaine d'Etudes. 4 (December 1992): 113-33.
Levin, Tobe. "Women as Scapegoats of Culture and Cult: An Activist's View of Female Circumcision in Ngugi's The River Between." Ngambika: Studies of Women in African Literature. Ed: Carole Boyce Davies and Anne Adams Graves. Trenton, NJ: Africa World, 1986. 205-221.
Nama, Charles A. . "Daughters of Moombi; Ngugi's Heroines and Traditional Gikuyu Aesthetics." Ngambika: Studies of Women in African Literature. Ed: Carole Boyce Davies and Anne Adams Graves. Trenton, NJ: Africa World, 1986. 139-49.
Nwanko, Chimalum. "Ngugi's Devil on the Cross: A Feminization of Chaos." Commonwealth Essays and Studies. 10.1 (1987): 119-22.
---- "Women in Ngugi's Plays:From Passivity to Social Responsibility." Ufahamu: Journal of the African Activist Association. 14.3 (1985): 85-92.
Perera, S.W. "From Mumbi to Wanja: The Emergence of the Woman in Ngugi's Fiction." Commonwealth Essays and Studies. 14.2 (1992): 69-78.
Verma, Charu. "Women in Ngugi wa Thiongo's Novels." Africa Quarterly. 34.3 (1994): 194-204.
Dodd, Josephine. "The South African Literary Establishment and the Textual Production of 'Woman': J.M. Coetzee and Lewis Nkosi." Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa 2, 1990. Rpt. in South African Feminisms:Writing, Theory and Criticism. Ed. M.J. Daymond. New York: Garland Publishing, 1995. 327-340.
Samantrai, Ranu. "The Erotic of Imperialism: V.S. Naipaul, J. M. Coetzee, Lewis Nkosi." Diss. University of Michigan, 1991. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI, 1991. DA9116292.
Andrade, Susan Z. "Rewriting History, Motherhood, and Rebellion: Naming an African Woman's Literary Tradition." Research in African Literatures 21.1 (1990): 91-110.
Berrian, Brenda F. "African Women as Seen in the Works of Flora Nwapa and Ama Ata Aidoo." College Language Association Journal. 25.3 (1982): 331-9.
Davies, Carole Boyce. "Motherhood in the Works of Male and Female Igbo Writers: Achebe, Emecheta, Nwapa, and Nzekwu." Ngambika: Studies of Women in African Literature. Ed. Carole Boyce Davies and Anne Adams Graves. Trenton, NJ: Africa World, 1986. 241-56.
Ezeigbo, Theodora Akachi. "Traditional Women's Institutions in Igbo Society: Implications for the Igbo Female Writer." African Languages and Cultures. 3.2 (1990): 149-65.
Ikonne, Chidi. "The Society and Woman's Quest for Selfhood in Flora Nwapa's Early Novels." Kunapipi. 6.1 (1984): 68-78.
Kandji, Diouf. "Des calvaires de la femme africaine dans la creation romanesque de Buchi Emecheta, Flora Nwapa, Ngugi Wa Thiongo et Ahmadou Kourouma." Bridges: An African Journal of English Studies/Revue Africaine d'Etudes. 4 (December 1992): 113-33.
Njoku, Teresa U. "Womanism in Flora Nwapa's One Is Enough and Women Are Different." Commonwealth Quarterly.14.39 (1989): 1-16.
Ohaeto, Ezenwa. "The Other Voices: The Poetry of Three Nigerian Female Writers." Canadian Journal of African Studies. 22.3 (1988): 662-8.
Ojo-Ade, Femi. "Women and the Nigerian Civil War: Buchi Emecheta and Flora Nwapa." Etudes Germano Africaines. 6 (1988): 75-86.
Phillips, Maggi. "Engaging Dreams: Alternative Perspectives on Flora Nwapa, Buchi Emecheta, Ama Ata Aidoo, Bessie Head, and Tsitsi Dangarembga's Writing." Research in African Literatures. 25.4 (1994): 89-103.
Wilentz, Gay. "The Individual Voice in the Communal Chorus: The Possibility of Choice in Flora Nwapa's Efuru." ACLALS Bulletin. 7.4 (1986): 30-36.
Davies, Carole Boyce. "Motherhood in the Works of Male and Female Igbo Writers: Achebe, Emecheta, Nwapa, and Nzekwu." Ngambika: Studies of Women in African Literature. Ed: Carole Boyce Davies and Anne Adams Graves. Trenton, NJ: Africa World, 1986. 241-56.
Sample, Maxine J. Cornish. The Representation of Space in Selected Works by Bessie Head, Buchi Emecheta, and Flora Nwapa. Diss. Emory University, 1990. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI, 1990. AAC 9027938.
Chesania, C.. "Grace Ogot: A Creative Writer's Contribution to Cultural Development and Women's Emancipation." Writers' Forum. 1 (March 1992): 73-80.
Ohaeto, Ezenwa. "The Other Voices: The Poetry of Three Nigerian Female Writers." Canadian Journal of African Studies. 22.3 (1988): 662-8.
Fido, Elaine Savory. "Okigbo's Labyrinths and the Context of Igbo Attitudes to the Female Principle." Ngambika: Studies of Women in African Literature. Ed: Carole Boyce Davies and Anne Adams Graves. Trenton, NJ: Africa World, 1986. 223-39.
Msiska, Mpalive Hangson. "Cultural Dislocation and Gender Ideology in Kole Omotoso's The Edifice." The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. 25.1 (1990): 98-108.
Onwueme, Tess Akaeke. "Osofisan's New Hero: Women as Agents of Social Reconstruction." Sage. 5.1 (1988): 25-28.
Julien, Eileen. Title. Rape and Representation. Ed. Lynn A. Higgins and Brenda R. Silver. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.
Amuta, Chidi. "The Nigerian Woman as Dramatist: The Instance of Tess Onwueme." Nigerian Female Writers: A Critical Perspective. Ed. by Henrietta C. Otokunefor and Obiageli C. Nwodo. Lagos: Malthouse, 1989. 53-59.
Ebeogu, Afam. "Feminism and the Mediation of the Mythic in Three Plays by Tess A. Onwueme." Literary Griot. 3.1 (1991): 97-111.