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Vogtsberger, Elizabeth Diane.

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Speaking up, speaking out: The revolutionary potential of the adolescent girl in postcolonial African women's literature.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Speaking up, speaking out: The revolutionary potential of the adolescent girl in postcolonial African women's literature./
Author:	Vogtsberger, Elizabeth Diane.
Description:	244 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-10, Section: A, page: 3651.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International71-10A.
Subject:	Literature, African. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3419412
ISBN:	9781124193540

Speaking up, speaking out: The revolutionary potential of the adolescent girl in postcolonial African women's literature.
Vogtsberger, Elizabeth Diane.

Speaking up, speaking out: The revolutionary potential of the adolescent girl in postcolonial African women's literature. - 244 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-10, Section: A, page: 3651.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Lehigh University, 2010.

A commitment to unearthing, recuperating, and celebrating the unfamiliar stories of a turbulent postcolonial African female adolescence unites Yvonne Vera's Under the Tongue, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus, and Doreen Baingana's Tropical Fish: Tales from Entebbe. In these women's novels the adolescent female protagonists are subjected to oppressive, traumatic, and potentially overwhelming patriarchal influences that often intersect with their countries' contemporary political histories. The three novels are invested in the ways their adolescent protagonists and characters negotiate and construct nascent autonomous identities amidst the challenges presented by these often conflicting socio-cultural, political, and domestic contexts. This dissertation argues that although Under the Tongue, Purple Hibiscus, and Tropical Fish represent the adolescent girl's journey toward self-articulated autonomy in different ways, they each foreground the role of supportive communities that help the girls find strength in their voices, speaking out, and telling their stories. Finally, the work of these novels extends outward beyond the worlds of the texts to secure a place for these voices and stories among the more dominant and, usually, male narratives of national and/or postcolonial histories.

ISBN: 9781124193540Subjects--Topical Terms:

1022872
Literature, African.

Speaking up, speaking out: The revolutionary potential of the adolescent girl in postcolonial African women's literature.
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