| Recreating Words, Reshaping Worlds: The Verbal Art of Women from Niger, Mali, and Senegal |  | Author: Aissata Sidikou
Publisher: Africa World Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 2227173
Media: Paperback
Pages: 256
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.7
ISBN: 0865438528
Dewey Decimal Number: 809.892870966
EAN: 9780865438521
ASIN: 0865438528
Publication Date: February 2002
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This ground-breaking book examines the verbal art of women from three Sahelian societies. It relates West African women s voices to a broader literary, political, and cultural context and succeeds in crossing traditional disciplinary boundaries. In her book, Sidikou argues that through verbal art women create a ritual space that serves as the locus of both their creativity and their efforts to negotiate power as well as to affirm their own selfhood. By offering a new way of approaching oral literature in West Africa, this study re-thinks verbal art by and about women. It also debunks assumptions about African women by suggesting a re-vision of what has been written about them. This significant and unique study will have a tremendous impact on research and teaching in general and will make a strong contribution not only to African studies, but to cultural studies, feminism, theory, and education.
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Phenomenal!! January 29, 2005
Alicia Mckie
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
To call this book groundbreaking is an understatement. This intriguing study reshapes many of the Western assumptions about African women with a truly unique and refreshing viewpoint. Anyone who is interested in African studies, women's studies, oral history, etc. would be doing themselves a great disservice to not have this book in their collection. This is the book that many scholars have been waiting for in that it is truly the premier source of information of its type on the market. You will not be disappointed!
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