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Women, Literature and Development in Africa is a convincing example of and contribution to the claim, by African writers and literary critics, that African art has always been used to serve the people’s needs in all aspects of life rather than existing merely for its own sake. It raises, to a new and positive level, the ongoing discussions about viable change and development in Africa, insisting that both must come from within Africa itself. This book adapts the holistic aesthetics and critical approaches of African narrative traditions to advance African thought about African Knowledge. It is a powerful exploration of contemporary African scholars’ efforts to re-chart and preserve, through literature, the evolution of African thought about development. Using a multidisciplinary framework, Anthonia Kalu argues that contemporary African literature continues an artistic tradition of maintaining identifiable cultural and traditional arts-based linkages between African ways of knowing and the African landscape. In this way, African literatures ensures continuity between Africa’s precolonial and contemporary development projects. Women, Literature and Development in Africa uses a multid

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Author

Anthonia C. Kalu

Publisher

Africa World Press

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780865439276

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities