RECREATING WORDS, RESHAPING WORLDS: THE VERBAL ART OF WOMEN FROM NIGER, MALI AND SENEGAL

By: Aissata Sidikou

ISBN: 0865438528

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This ground-breaking book examines the verbal art of women from three Sahelian societies. It relates West African womens 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.