Ethics and Human Rights in Anglophone African Women's Literature: Feminist Empathy

by Chielozona Eze

Book Overview

This book proposes feminist empathy as a model of interpretation in the works of contemporary Anglophone African women writers. The African woman's body is often portrayed as having been disabled by the patriarchal and sexist structures of society. Returning to their bodies as a point of reference, rather than the postcolonial ideology of empire, contemporaryAfrican women writers demand fairness and equality. By showing how this literature deploys...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319822187
• ISBN13: 9783319822181
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"