Less Than One and Double: A Feminist Reading of African Women's Writing
Harrow's provocative book introduces a psychoanalytic dimension to the study of African women's writing. In so doing, he opens up relatively uncharted terrain in African literary studies.
Search in google:
Harrow's provocative book introduces a psychoanalytic dimension to the study of African women's writing. In so doing, he opens up relatively uncharted terrain in African literary studies. Comprehensive, nuanced, occasionally lyrical, the book covers an impressive range of hitherto neglected francophone novels that are examined alongside canonical anglophone texts. The author places these texts in their colonial and postcolonial contexts, developing upon, and linking, structuralist theories of colonialism and patriarchy. This study offers a radical new position for those scholars who have long sought alternatives to the liberal humanist bias pervading many studies of African women's writing.Students often struggle with the models employed by feminist and postcolonial theorists such as Judith Butler and Homi Bhabha. The clarity with which Harrow explains the positions of such theorists makes his book an essential companion to, and commentary upon, their publications. Kenneth Harrow's study will be of interest not only to African literature specialists, but also to non-literary scholars concerned with questions about feminism, gender construction, colonialism, psychoanalysis, and postcolonial theory.
PrefaceIntroduction: Insider Writers/Outsider Theory1First Wave and Second Wave African Feminism: Butler and the Question of Gender12The Other (Side of the) Mirror233Jewish Abjection, African Abjection, and The Subject Presumed to Know: Kristeva and Beyala's Tu t'appelleras Tanga434Standing Like a Tower: Plagiarism, Castration, and the Phallus in Le Petit Prince de Belleville975Less Than One and Double: Irigaray/Bhabha, Nervous Conditions/Asseze l'Africaine1576Division, Disunity, Disturbance, and Difference: Safi Faye's Mossane and the Challenge of Postmodern Feminism2477City of Mud and Diamonds, City of Dis: Tanella Boni, Veronique Tadjo - A Feminism of the Cities277Conclusion: Rebuilding Dis: Words of a Second Wave331Bibliography335Index343
