Women's Spaces, Women's Visions: Politics, Poetics, and Resistance in African Women's DramaAfrica World Press, 2007 - 322 pages |
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... agency should be defined not in terms of victimhood or dependency but as " the conscious and ongoing reproduction of the terms of one's existence while taking responsibility for this process . And agency anchored in the practice of ...
... agency should be defined not in terms of victimhood or dependency but as " the conscious and ongoing reproduction of the terms of one's existence while taking responsibility for this process . And agency anchored in the practice of ...
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... agency within the postcolonial national space . Women's agency in Foriwa , I want to argue , is constructed in relation to the ambiguities arising from cultural dislocations occasioned by the momentous encounters between African and ...
... agency within the postcolonial national space . Women's agency in Foriwa , I want to argue , is constructed in relation to the ambiguities arising from cultural dislocations occasioned by the momentous encounters between African and ...
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... agency , understood both as individually constructed , culturally embedded , and “ institutionally validated action [ s ] ” ( Spivak 2000 , xx ) . For how else , to cite just one example , can we understand Werewere Liking's engagement ...
... agency , understood both as individually constructed , culturally embedded , and “ institutionally validated action [ s ] ” ( Spivak 2000 , xx ) . For how else , to cite just one example , can we understand Werewere Liking's engagement ...
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