Bibliography of Feminist Criticism
in French and English of African Literatures
By Sharon Verba
From Reddy to Al-Zayat
Van Niekerk, Annemarie. "Aspects of Race, Class and Gender in Jayapraga Reddy's On the Fringe of Dreamtime and Other Stories." Unisa English Studies: Journal of the Department of English. 30.2 (1992): 35-40.
Nwachukwu-Agbada, J.O.J. "The Lifted Veil: Protest in Alifa Rifaat's Short Stories." International Fiction Review. 17.2 (1990): 108-110.
Salti, Ramzi M. "Feminism and Religion in Alifa Rifaat's Short Stories." International Fiction Review. 18.2 (1991): 108-12.
Lenta, Margaret. "Two Women and their Territories: Shelia Roberts and Miriam Tlali." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature. 11.1 (1992): 103-11.
Interviews:
Roberts, Sheila. 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.
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.
Malti-Douglas, Fedwa. Men, Women and God(s): Nawal El Saadawi and Arab Feminist Politics. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.
Mitra, Madhuchhanda. "Angry Eyes and Closed Lips: Forces of Revolution in Nawal el Saadawi's God Dies by the Nile." Violence, Silence, and Anger: Women's Writing as Transgression. Ed. Diedre Lasgari. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1995. 147-57.
Park, Heong Dug. Nawal al Sa'adawi and Modern Egyptian Feminist Writings. Diss. University of Michigan, 1988. Ann Arbor: UMI, 1989. AAC 8821634.
Tarabishi, Jurj. Woman Against Her Sex: A Critique of Nawal el-Saadawi with a reply by Nawal el-Sadaawi. London; Brooklyn, NY: Saqi Books, 1988.
Interviews:
El-Sa'dawi, Nawal. "Living the Struggle: Nawal el Saadawi Talks about Writing and Resistance." Interview by Sherif Hetata and Peter Hitchcock. Transition: An International Review. 61 (1993): 170-79.
---- "Writing Is Power." Interview by Rosmary Clunie. West Africa 3598 (Aug. 18, 1986): 1735-36.
Wallace, Karen Smyley. "A Search for Identity: The Alienated Female Persona in Some Francophone African Novels." Rendezvous: Journal of Arts and Letters. 22.2 (1986): 32-38.
---- "Women and Alienation: Analysis of the Works of Two Francophone Writers." Ngambika: Studies of Women in African Literature. Ed. Carole Boyce Davies and Anne Adams Graves. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1986. 63-73.
Davidson, John E. "In Search of a Middle Point: The Origins of Oppression in Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North." Research In African Literatures. 20.3 (1989): 385-400.
Ghattas-Soliman, Sonia. "The Two-Sided Image of Women in Season of Migration to the North." Faces of Islam in African Literature. Ed. Kenneth W. Harrow. Portsmouth: Heinemann, 1991. 91-103.
Scott, Pauline Marie. Writing, Rewriting, and Unwriting the Renaissance: Constructing 'Other'ness in Ariosto's 'Orlando Furioso,' Shakespeare's 'Othello,' Woolf's 'Orlando,' and Salih's 'Season of the Migration to the North.' Diss. University of California, Berkeley, 1993. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI, 1995. AAC 9430151
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.
Badron, Margot. "Expressing Feminism and Nationalism in Autobiography: The Memoirs of an Egyptian Educator." De/Colonizing the Subject: The Politics of Gender in Women's Autobiography. Ed. Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992. 270-93.
Schreiner, Olive Emilie Albertina
Albinski, Nan Bowman. " 'The Law of Justice, of Nature, and of Right': Victorian Feminist Utopias." Feminism, Utopia, and Narrative. Ed. Sarah Webster Goodwin and Libby Falk Jones. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1990. 50-68.
Barash, Carol L. "Virile Womanhood: Olive Schreiner's Narratives of a Master Race." Speaking of Gender. Ed. Elaine Showalter. New York: Routledge, 1989. 269-81.
Bishop, Alan. "'With Suffering and Through Time': Olive Schreiner, Vera Brittain, and the Great War." Olive Schreiner and After: Essays on Southern African Literature in Honour of Guy Butler. Ed. Malvern van Wyk Smith and Don Maclennan. Cape Town: David Philip, 1983. 80-92.
Clayton, Cherry. "Olive Schreiner: Paradoxical Pioneer." Women and Writing in South Africa: A Critical Anthology. Ed. Cherry Clayton. Marshalltown: Heinemann Southern Africa, 1989. 41-59.
---- "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.
Donaldson, Laura E. "(ex)Changing (wo)Man: Toward a Materialist-Feminist Semiotics." Cultual Critique. 11 Winter (1988-1989): 5-23.
Gardner, Susan. "Olive Schreiner 'Called Back'." Hecate: A Women's Interdisciplinary Journal of Women's Liberation. 17.2 (1991): 127-35.
Heilmann, Ann. "'Over that Bridge Built with our Bodies the Entire Human Race Will Pass'; A Rereading of Olive Schreiner's From Man to Man." European Journal of Women's Studies. 2.1 (1995): 33-50.
Lerner, Laurence. "Olive Schreiner and the Feminists." Olive Schreiner and After: Essays on Southern African Literature in Honour of Guy Butler. Ed. Malvern van Wyk Smith and Don Maclennan. Cape Town: David Philip, 1983. 67-79.
McMurry, Andrew. "Figures in a Ground: An Ecofeminist Study of Olive Schreiner's The Story of an African Farm." English Studies in Canada. 20.4 (1994): 431-48.
Monsman, Gerald. "Patterns of Narration and Characterization in Schreiner's The Story of an African Farm." English Literature in Transition. 28.3 (1985): 253-70.
Raiskin, Judith. Unruly Subjects: Nationhood, Home and Colonial Consciousness in Olive Schreiner and Jean Rhys. Diss. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI, 1990. 3938A.
Winkler, Barbara Scott. "Victorian Daughters: The Lives and Feminism of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Olive Schreiner." Critical Essays on Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Ed. Joanne B. Karpinski. New York: G.K. Hall, 1992. 173-83.
DuPlessis, Nancy. "Leila Sebbar: Voice of Exile." World Literature Today. 63.3 (1989): 415.
Marx-Scouras, Danielle. "The Mother Tongue of Leila Sebbar." Studies in Twentieth Century Literature. 17.1 (1993): 45-61.
Mortimer, Mildred. "On the Road: Leila Sebbar's Fugitive Heroines." Research in African Literatures. 23.2 (1992): 195-201.
Orlando, Valerie. "A la recherche du 'devenir femme' dans le Troisieme Espace de Culture: Sherazade: 17 ans, brune, frisee, les yeux verts de Leila Sebbar." Women in French Literature. 2 (1994): 19-31.
Abety, Peter. "Women Activists in Ayi Kwei Armah's Two Thousand Seasons and Ousmane Sembene's God's Bits of Wood: A Study of the Role of Women in the Liberation Struggle." Bridges: An African Journal of English Studies. 4 (1992): 19-33.
Agbasiere, Julie. "Sembene Ousmane and the Feminist Question: A Study of Les Bouts de Bois de Dieu." Current Trends in Literature and Language Studies in West Africa. Ed. Ernest N. Emenyonu and Charles E. Nnolim. Ibadan: Kraft Books Limited, 1994. 53-62.
Berrian, Brenda. "Through Her Prism of Social and Political Contexts: Sembene's Female Characters in Tribal Scars." Ngambika: Studies of Women in African Literature. Ed: Carole Boyce Davies and Anne Adams Graves. Trenton, NJ: Africa World, 1986. 195-204.
Case, F. "Worker's Movements: Revolution and Women's Consciousness in God's Bits of Wood." Canadian Journal of African Studies/Revu Canadienne des Etudes Africaines. 15.2 (1981): 277-292.
Ijere, Muriel. "La Condition feminine dans Xala de Sembene Ousmane." Revu de Litterature et de Esthetique Negro-Africaine. 8 (1988): 36-45.
---- "Sembene Ousmane et l'institution polygamique." Ethiopiques. 5.1-2 (1988): 173-84.
Lee, Sonia. "The Awakening of the Self in the Heroines of Sembene Ousmane." Sturdy Black Bridges. Ed. Roseann P. Bell, Bettye J. Parker and Beverly Guy-Sheftall. Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1979. 52-60.
Linkhorn, Renee. "L'Afrique de demain: Femmes en marche dans l'oeuvre de Sembene Ousmane." Modern Language Studies. 16.3 (1986): 69-76.
Makward, Edris. "Women, Tradition, and Religion in Sembene Ousmane's Work." Faces of Islam in African Literature. Ed. by Kenneth W. Harrow. Portsmouth: Heinemann, 1991. 187-99.
Sircar, Roopali. "Women and Resistance: Women in Semben Ousmane's God's Bits of Wood." Africa Quarterly. 34.3 (1994): 146-68.
Wallace, Karen Smyley. "A Search for Identity: The Alienated Female Persona in Some Francophone African Novels." Rendezvous: Journal of Arts and Letters. 22.2 (1986): 32-38.
---- "Women and Alienation: Analysis of the Works of Two Francophone Writers." Ngambika: Studies of Women in African Literature. Ed. Carole Boyce Davies and Anne Adams Graves. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1986. 63-73.
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.
Wake, Clive. "Practical Criticism or Literary Commentary." Research in African Literatures. 16.1 (1985): 5-19.
Bencheikh, Lotfi. "Body and Space in Abdelhak Serhane's Novels." Bulletin of Francophone Africa. 4.7 (1995): 21-35.
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.
Driver, Dorothy. "Pauline Smith and the Crisis of Daughterhood." South African Feminisms: Writing, Theory and Criticism. Ed. M.J. Daymond. New York: Garland Publishing, 1995. 185-206.
Fido, Elaine Savory. "A Question of Realities: Zulu Sofola's The Sweet Trap." ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature. 18.4 (1987): 53-66.
Interviews:
Sofola, Zulu. "Interview with Zulu Sofola." Interview by Ezenwa-Ohaeto. Sage. 5 (Summer 1988): 66-7.
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.
Cazenave, Odile. "Gender, Age, and Reeducation: A Changing Emphasis in Recent African Novels in French, as Exemplified in L'Appel des arenes by Aminata Sow Fall." Africa Today. 38.3 (1991): 54-62.
Jaccard, Anny Claire. "Les Visages de l'Islam chez Mariama Ba et Aminata Sow Fall." Nouvelles du Sud. 6 (1986-1987): 171-82.
Stringer, Susan. "Cultural Conflict in the Novels of Two African Writers, Mariama Ba and Aminata Sow Fall." Sage. Supplement (1988): 36-41.
Wills, Dorothy Davis. "Economic Violence in Postcolonial Senegal: Noisy Silence in Novels by Mariama Ba and Aminata Sow Fall." Violence, Silence and Anger: Women's Writing as Transgression. Ed. Deirdre Lashgari. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995. 158-71.
Interviews:
Fall, Aminata Sow. "Aminata Sow Fall: L'ecriture au feminin." Interview by Francois Pfaff. Notre Librairie. 81 (1985): 135-8.
---- "Entretiens avec Aminata Sow Fall." Interview by Sonia Lee. African Literature Association Bulletin. 14.4 (1988): 23-26.
---- "An Interview with Senegalese Novelist Aminata Sow Fall." By Peter Hawkins. French Studies Bulletin: A Quarterly Supplement. 22 (1987): 19-21.
Bryan, Sylvia. "Images of Women in Wole Soyinka's Work." African Literature Today. 15 (1987): 119-30.
Davis, Christina. "Taiila: The Indian Women in Wole Soyinka's Season of Anomy." Commonwealth Essays and Studies. 8.1 (1985): 77-80.
Davies, Carole Boyce. "Maidens, Mistresses, and Matrons: Feminine Images in Selected Soyinka Works." Interdisciplinary Dimensions of African Literature. Ed. Kofi Anyidoho, Abioseh M. Porter, Daniel Racine, and Janice Spleth. Washington, DC: Three Continents, 1985. 89-99. Rpt. in Ngambika: Studies of Women in African Literature. Ed. Carole Boyce Davies and Anne Adams Graves. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1986. 75-88.
Jaccard, Anny Claire. "Portraits de femmes dans Les Interpretes de Wole Soyinka." Nouvelles du Sud. 2 (1985-1986): 99-127.
Layiwola, Dele. "Womanism in Nigerian Folklore and Drama." African Notes: Journal of the Institute of African Studies. 11.1 (1987): 27-33.
Lindeborg, Ruth H. "Is This Guerilla Warfare? The Nature and Strategies of the Political Subject in Wole Soyinka's Ake." Research in African Literatures. 21.4 (1990): 55-69.
Ndiaye, Marieme. "Female Stereotypes in Wole Soyinka's The Strong Breed and The Lion and the Jewel." Bridges: An African Journal of English Studies. 5 (1993): 19-24.
Ogundipe-Leslie, Molara. "The Representation of Women: The Example of Soyinka's Ake." Re-Creating Ourselves: African Women and Critical Transformations. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1994. 102-110.
Sethuraman, K. "The Role of Women in the Plays of Wole Soyinka." World Literature Written in English. 25.2 (1985): 222-227.
Muhindi, K. "L'Apport de Efua Theodora Sutherland a la dramaturgie contemporaine." Presence Africaine. 133/134 (1985): 75-85.
Pearce, Adetokunbo. "The Didactic Essence of Efua Sutherland's Plays." African Literature Today. 15 (1987): 71-81.
Wilentz, Gay. "Writing for the Children: Orature, Tradition and Community in Efua Sutherland's Foriwa." Research in African Literatures. 19.2 (1988): 182-196.
Julien, Eileen. Title. Rape and Representation. Ed. Lynn A. Higgins and Brenda R. Silver. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.
Luce, Louise Fiber. "Passages: The Women of Sony Labou Tansi." The French Review. 64.5 (1991): 739-46.
Brahimi, Denise. "Awa Thiam et Fatima Mernissi: Negro-Africaines et Arabo-Musulmanes." Notre Librairie. 95 (1988): 69-73.
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. 223-40.
Lenta, Margaret. "Two Women and their Territories: Shelia Roberts and Miriam Tlali." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature. 11.1 (1992): 103-11.
Lockett, Cecily. "The Fabric of Experience: A Critical Perspective on the Writing of Miriam Tlali." Women and Writing in South Africa: A Critical Anthology. Ed. Cherry Clayton. Marshalltown: Heinemann Southern Africa, 1989. 275-85.
Omokore, Omosade Olusola. "The Image of Women in Miriam Tlali's Amandla." Bridges: An African Journal of English Studies. 6 (1995): 1-9.
Interviews:
Tlali, Miriam. Between the Lines: Interviews with Bessie Head, Sheila Roberts, Ellen Kuzwayo, Miriam Tlali. Ed. Craig MacKenzie and Cherry Clayton. Grahamstown: National English Literary Museum, 1989.
---- "Conversation with Miriam Tlali." Interview by Sonia Lee. African Literature Association Buletin. 17.3 (1991): 40-2.
---- "Interview with Miriam Tlali." Interview by Jeanette Dean. New Literatures Review. 27 (Summer 1994): 45-56.
---- "Interview with Miriam Tlali." Interview by Mineke Schipper. Unheard Words: Women and Literature in Africa, the Arab World, Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America.
Singler, John Victor. "The Day Will Come: J.J. Walters and Guanya Pau." Liberian Studies Journal. 15.2 (1990): 125-34.
Ezeigbo, Theodora Akachi. "Women's Empowerment and National Integration: Ba's So Long a Letter and Warner -Vierya's Juletane." Current Trends in Literature and Language Studies in West Africa. Ed. Ernest N. Emenyonu and Charles E. Nnolim. Ibadan: Kraft Books Limited, 1994. 7-19.
Interviews:
Warner-Vieyra, Myriam. "An Interview with Myriam Warner-Vieyra." Interview by Mildred Mortimer. Callaloo: A Journal of African-American and African Arts and Letters. 16.1 (1993): 108-15.
Woodhull, Winifred. "Rereading Nedjma: Feminist Scholarship and North African Women." Substance: A Review of Theory and Literary Criticism. 21.3 (1992): 46-63.
Al-Zayat, Latifa. "On Political Commitment and Feminist Writing: An Interview: Latifa Al-Zayat." Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics. 10 (1990): 134-50.