Feminist and Womanist Criticism
of African Literature:
A Bibliography
By Sharon Verba
July 20, 1997
Essay Bibliography
Boehmer, Elleke. "Of Goddesses and Stories: Gender and a New Politics in Achebe's Anthills of the Savannah." Chinua Achebe: A Celebration. Ed: Kirstin Holst Peterson and Anna Rutherford. Oxford: Heinemann, 1990. 102-12.
Bosman, Brenda. "A Correspondence Without Theory: Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions." 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. 301-311.
Davies, Carole Boyce. "Introduction: Feminist Consciousness and African Literary Criticism." Ngambika: Studies of Women in African Literature. Ed. Carole Boyce Davies and Anne Adams Graves. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1986. 1-23.
---- "Maidens, Mistresses and Maidens: Feminine Images in Selected Soyinka Works." Ngambika: Studies of Women in African Literature. Ed: Carole Boyce Davies and Anne Adams Graves. Trenton, NJ: Africa World, 1986. 75-88.
Frank, Katherine. "Women Without Men: The Feminist Novel in Africa." African Literature Today. 15 (1987): 14-34.
Jack, Belinda. "Strategies of Transgression in the Writings of Assia Djebar." Essays on African Writing 2: Contemporary Literature. Ed. Abdulrazak Gurnah. Oxford: Heinemann, 1995. 19-31.
Lee, Sonia. "Daughters of Hagar: Daughters of Muhammad." The Marabout and the Muse: New Approaches to Islam in African Literature. Ed. Kenneth W. Harrow. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1996. 51-61.
Moyana, Rosemary. "Men & Women: Gender Issues in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions &She No Longer Weeps." New Trends and Generations in African Literature. Ed. Eldred Durosimi Jones. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1996.
O'Barr, Jean. "Feminist Issues in the Fiction of Kenya's Women." African Literature Today. 15 (1987): 55-70.
Owusu, Kofi. "Canons Under Siege: Blackness, Femaleness, and Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy." Callaloo. 13.2 (1990): 341-363.