African women, literature, language and culture
<p class="p1">This essay will link African women’s writing to culture, including literary culture and the politics of literature. It describes how African women’s literature can act as a mirror, reflecting African cultures to Africans, and how it can serve as a window and a door, rev...
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Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
2014-09-01
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| author | Rosamond S. King |
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| description | <p class="p1">This essay will link African women’s writing to culture, including literary culture and the politics of literature. It describes how African women’s literature can act as a mirror, reflecting African cultures to Africans, and how it can serve as a window and a door, revealing African cultures to those outside of them in whole or in part. It ends with a description of “communal agency,” an example of how scholarly writing can act as a door for both those who are and are not a part of a literature’s culture. </p> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f7bd62346025464aa3cc023fea847d2d2022-12-22T01:19:37ZengUniversidad Rey Juan CarlosIndex Comunicación2444-32392174-18592014-09-0142798696African women, literature, language and cultureRosamond S. King0Brooklyn College, the City University of New York<p class="p1">This essay will link African women’s writing to culture, including literary culture and the politics of literature. It describes how African women’s literature can act as a mirror, reflecting African cultures to Africans, and how it can serve as a window and a door, revealing African cultures to those outside of them in whole or in part. It ends with a description of “communal agency,” an example of how scholarly writing can act as a door for both those who are and are not a part of a literature’s culture. </p>http://journals.sfu.ca/indexcomunicacion/index.php/indexcomunicacion/article/view/134African literatureAfrican womenliterary culturepublishingtranslationThe Gambia |
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