A History of Africana Women's Literature contains a selection of essays by notable Feminist/Womanist scholars exploring the lives of Black women in different socio-cultural, linguistic and religious milieux, using a cross-disciplinary perspective. The book offers portraits of women actually seen to move beyond mere socio-gender protests against marginalization and voicelessness to a much-desired phase of dynamic socio-political / intellectual activism and self-actualization -- leading to a recovery and an effective use of the female voice. Fictive or real, women of this anthology all have a history of activism that can be traced even to pre-colonial Africa and its orality. This essay collection further achieves continuity by connecting women from disparate geo-linguistic and cultural spaces visibly engaged in identical gender struggles. The essays provide deep insights into the strategies these women adopt to combat and demolish the male-erected architectural enclosures of exclusion. This anthology also acknowledges the contributions of men, termed gynandrists who have with empathy spoken for women long before women could themselves do so. Contributors include: Rose Ure Mezu, Gloria Chuku, Ramenga Mtaali Osotsi, Margaret A. Reid, Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure, Najat Rahman, Deirdre Bucher Heistad, Mbar NGom, Blessing Diala-Ogamba, Marlene de la Cruz-Guzmn and Lena Ampadu.
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