Acknowledgments
Prolepsis: Twelve Telling Tales by African Women
1: Modernity, Gender, and Agency in Ama Ata Aidoo’s Anowa
2: Charting the Nation/Charting History: The Power of Language in Assia Djebar’s Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade
3: Nawal El Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero within the Context of Arab Feminist Discourse
4: Nadine Gordimer’s Burger’s Daughter: Consciousness, Identity, and Autonomy
5: Dreams of (Dis)order: Competing Visions of Colonial Nigeria in Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood
6: In the Pauses of the Historian’s Narrative: Yvonne Vera’s Butterfly Burning
7: Mapping a Female Mind: Bessie Head’s A Question of Power and the Unscrambling of Africa
8: A Drama of Power: Aminata Sow Fall’s The Beggars’ Strike
9: Aesthetics, Ethics, Desire, and Necessity in Mariama Bâ’s So Long a Letter
10: Reading Masculinities in a Feminist Text: Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions
11: Sindiwe Magona: Writing, Remembering, Selfhood, and Community in Living, Loving, and Lying Awake at Night
12: Every Choice Is a Renunciation: Cultural Landmarks in Ken Bugul’s Riwan ou le chemin de sable
Coda: African Women’s Writing, Prospectively
Notes on Contributors
Index