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Constructing Womanhood in Zimbabwean Literature: Noviolet Bulawayo and Petina Gappah

Volume 18 (2019): Issue 1 (December 2019)

By: Luiza Caraivan

Open Access

|Feb 2020

Abstract

Literature written in English in the former British colonies of Southern Africa has attracted the public’s attention after the publication of Michael Chapman’s “Southern African Literaturesˮ (1996). The paper analyses the writings of two Zimbabwean authors - NoViolet Bulawayo (Elizabeth Zandile Tshele) and Petina Gappah – taking into account African feminist discourses.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/genst-2020-0005 | Journal eISSN: 2286-0134 | Journal ISSN: 1583-980X

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Language: English

Page range: 58 - 68

Published on: Feb 1, 2020

Published by: West University of Timisoara

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

Keywords:

women’s voices,

Related subjects:

Social sciences,

Sociology, other,

Literary studies,

Literary studies, general,

Linguistics and semiotics,

Applied linguistics,

Applied linguistics, other,

Cultural studies,

Topics in cultural studies,

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