AFRI 2005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Noviolet Bulawayo, Lola Shoneyin, Identity Politics
22 Feb 2017
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Authors to look for: chibundu onuzo, lola shoneyin, noviolet bulawayo, ifeoma chinwuba. The rose on the cover: the cover is very out there: sense of agency: a pimp, a madam(e) Street- ideas of danger and something being dangerous: rising significance, youth culture in contemporary postcolonial studies. Chika: 1st degree in nsukka uni, has phd from school in usa, married to white man, with children, speaks igbo, dutch, english, part of generation of african female writers. Reversal of african writers from male to female: **visited antwerp (did field work)- could potentially have true life stories in this, *complex identities of writing and researching for the writing of this book, https://orbi. ulg. ac. be/bitstream/2268/80562/1/tunca_unigwe_afroeuropa. pdf. Story is told in a compassionate manner: unigwe takes on the persona of the characters to tell the story: tellingly female perspective to the female perspective. Sisi, joyce, ama, efe (main characters), pimp-daddy: senghor dele. Streets of the postcolony and the diaspora especially in europe.
