NEW322H1 Lecture : Feb 3, African Lit.docx
Document Summary
Death of the author, birth of the reader (bakhtin), biography of the author is what is received from the page by the critical community in which the writing emerges. Rebirth of the author, text and context, part of that context is the writer (and the writer"s identity). Tradition, all of the novels will engage in questions of modernity and questions of tradition. Pursued in order to push a political agenda. Treatment of gender relations and roles, women are archetypes. Colonial violence is masculinized, colonial violence is about the emasculation of. Marginalized or peripheralization of women"s experiences under colonialism. Dominant images of women and female bodies, and how these issues relate to feminism: Female versus women writers: female , notion occurs at birth, biological sex, etc. , performance of being female women a social construction. Women, byproducts of men and secondary creations (monotheistic creation myth, To be feminine is to seek refuge, okonwo is banished to his motherland.
