Mother Africa, Father Marx
, by Owen, HilaryNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9781611482638 | 1611482631
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 3/1/2007
This book is the first work in the English language to discuss the participation of women writers in the narrative construction of Mozambican nationhood over the last half-century. Covering the rise of anti-colonial nationalism in the 1950s, the advent of the Marxist-Leninist Republic in the 1970s, the war that followed independence in the 1980s, and the transition to democracy and the neo-liberal economy in the 1990s, the volume focuses on four representative women writers who belong to distinct but overlapping periods and work in different genres. Dealing with No_mia de Sousa's poetry, Lina Magaia's testimonial writings, L'lia Mompl_'s short fiction, and Paulina Chiziane's novels, the result is a close reading of the ways in which women have narrated and counter-narrated Mozambican nationhood to take account of the gendered power relations that traditionally underpin national community as imagined by men.