Women's Spaces, Women's Visions: Politics, Poetics, and Resistance in African Women's DramaAfrica World Press, 2007 - 322 pages |
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... narrative or dramatic text for ideological reasons . Collectictively these unfold under the banner of “ orality ... narrative of " Dyamini , " in Mlama's Lina Ubani , a new tale told over and over again in the play , first by the old ...
... narrative or dramatic text for ideological reasons . Collectictively these unfold under the banner of “ orality ... narrative of " Dyamini , " in Mlama's Lina Ubani , a new tale told over and over again in the play , first by the old ...
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... narrative space denied her by patriarchal society . Moreover , her action interrupts and arrests Mtani's narrative which , throughout the play , is told in masculine terms . Her request to the narrator to help her clear the ashes ( 51 ) ...
... narrative space denied her by patriarchal society . Moreover , her action interrupts and arrests Mtani's narrative which , throughout the play , is told in masculine terms . Her request to the narrator to help her clear the ashes ( 51 ) ...
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... narratives in East Africa . Zirimu re - creates this highly didactic narrative with remarkable originality , infusing it with allegori- cal meanings that call attention to the political purpose of her play . Although the dominant themes ...
... narratives in East Africa . Zirimu re - creates this highly didactic narrative with remarkable originality , infusing it with allegori- cal meanings that call attention to the political purpose of her play . Although the dominant themes ...
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