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In The Nation Writ Small, Susan Z. Andrade focuses on the work of Africa's first post-independence generation of novelists, explaining why male writers came to be seen as the voice of Africa's new nation-states, and why African women writers' commentary on national politics was overlooked. Since Africa's early female novelists tended to write about the family, while male authors often explicitly addressed national politics, it was assumed that the women writers were uninterested in the nation and the public sphere. Challenging that notion, Andrade argues that the female authors engaged national politics through allegory. In their work, the family stands for the nation; it is the nation writ small. Interpreting fiction by women, as well as several feminist male authors, she analyzes novels by Flora Nwapa and Buchi Emecheta (Nigeria); novellas by Ousmane Sembene, Mariama Ba, and Aminata Sow Fall (Senegal); and Bildungsromans by Tsitsi Dangarembga (Zimbabwe), Nuruddin Farah (Somalia), and Assia Djebar (Algeria). Andrade reveals Africa's early women novelists' influence on later generations of female authors, and she highlights the moment when African women began to write about macro-politics explicitly rather than allegorically.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Nation Writ Small
• Author: Susan Z Andrade
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• EAN: 9780822349211
• ISBN: 0822349213
• ID: 04419069
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Weight: 366 g
• Dimensions: 156 × 233 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. November 2011

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