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Books by Dr. Rose Ure Mezu
Women
in Chains: Abandonment in Love Relationships in the
Fiction of Selected West African Writers (1994)
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Songs of the Hearth
(1993) /
Homage to My People
(2004) /
A History of Africana Women's Literature (2004)
Black
Nationalists: Reconsidering Du Bois, Garvey, Booker T. &
Nkrumah (1999)
Chinua Achebe: The Man and His Works (2006)
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Women In
Chains
Abandonment
in Love Relationships in the Fiction of Selected West
African Writers
By Dr.
Rose Ure Mezu
Francophone and Anglophone feminist and
gynandrist novelists have dramatized the cause of wronged
womanhood and the dehumanizing and patriarchal conditions under
which the African woman is forced to function, often abandoned
after exploitation.
Education and economic autonomy become avenues for survival
for the oppressed woman. This sometimes creates harmony that
sustains compassionate union. This study encourages women to
exercise the Will to Change and transcend those negative
strictures (polygamy, barrenness, infidelity) that destabilize
and promote abandonment.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Women in Chains: the Universal Canvas
Chapter II Barrenness: Catalyst for Self-Discovery
Chapter III Polygamy and Abandonment
Chapter IV Infidelity, Incest and Abandonment
Chapter V Feminist Awareness and the Abandonment Female
Chapter VI Conclusion the Will to Change |
Contact:
http://jewel.morgan.edu/~rmezu/index.html
http://blackacademypress.com/html/mb/index.php*
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updated
2 October 2007 |
