Politics of Mothering

• Author(s): Obioma Nnaemeka,
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Pages: 233
• ISBN_10: 041513790X
  ISBN_13: 9780415137904
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / Feminist , Literary Criticism / African , Literary Criticism / Women Authors , Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Politics , Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Women , Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Gender Identity , Philosophy / General , Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies , Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory , Social Science / Women's Studies ,

Description:... This study of African literature examines the paradoxical location of (m)other as both central and marginal and is framed by the idea of "mother"--Motherland, mothertongue, motherwit, motherhood, and mothering. Whilst the volume stands as a sustained feminist analysis, it engages feminist theory itself by showing how issues in feminism are, in African literature, recast in different and complex ways. The core arguments in the volume foreground epistemological questions - the construction, containment, and dissemination of knowledge - and the role that gender politics plays in them. Even more significantly, The Politics of (M)Othering insists on the importance of cultural literacy to an effective analysis of cultural productions such as African literary texts.