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Without A Name By Yvonne Vera, Pamela J. Olúbùnmi Smith
Without A Name By Yvonne Vera, Pamela J. Olúbùnmi Smith
Goodrich Scholarship Faculty Publications
A relative newcomer to the literary scene, Yvonne Vera joins the rising ranks of Zimbabwean writers and African women writers, earning her place with promising credentials, academic and literary. Vera is the author of two previous works, a volume of short stories, Why Don't You Carve Other Animals (1992), and a poetic novel, Nehanda (1993; see WLT 69:i, p.212), which were shortlisted for the Regional Commonwealth Writers Award in 1993 and 1994 respectively.
Diedre Badejo. Òsun Sèègèsí: The Elegant Deity Of Wealth, Power And Femininity, Pamela J. Olúbùnmi Smith
Diedre Badejo. Òsun Sèègèsí: The Elegant Deity Of Wealth, Power And Femininity, Pamela J. Olúbùnmi Smith
Goodrich Scholarship Faculty Publications
The advocacy for African mother tongue source texts, translated or otherwise, has gone long unheeded and has been mired in a decade of academic debates about "privileged insider/arrogant outsider" approaches to and judgment of African literature in European languages. The Western feminist knowledge naming and claiming prerogative which has characterized much of feminist praxis in the seventies and eighties, especially in its self-assigned mandate to "speak" for "Third World" women, has forced the discursive territory to yet another level. The "damned-if-you-do/damned-if-you-don't" mediating position African feminist voices find themselves in lately is forcing a text/context conscious criticism of modern African literature …