The Politics of (M)Othering

Dedication, Acknowledgements, Obioma Nnaemeka Introduction: Imag(in)ing Knowledge, Power, and Subversion in the Margins Trinh T. Minh-ha Mother's Talk Charles Sugnet Nervous Conditions: Dangarembga's Feminist Reinvention of Fanon Ousseynou B. Traor'e Why the Snake-Lizard Killed His Mother: Inscribing and Decentering "Nneka" in Things Fall Apart, Peter Hitchcock The Eye and the Other: The Gaze and the Look in Egyptian Feminist Fiction Uzo Esonwanne Enlightenment Epistemology and "Aesthetic Cognition": Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter Julianan Nfah-Abbenyi Calixthe Beyala's "femme-fillette": Womanhood and the Politics of (M)Othering Cynthia Ward Bound to Matter: The Father's Pen and Mother Tongues Celeste Fraser Delgado Mother Tongues and Childless Women: The Construction of "Kenyan" "Womanhood" Huma Ibrahim Ontological Victimhood: "Other Bodies in Madness and Exile", Toward a Third World Feminist Epistemology Obioma Nnaemeka Urban Spaces, Woman's Places: Polygamy as Sign in Mariama Ba's Novels Renee Larrier Reconstructing Motherhood: Francophone, African Women Autobiographers Fran,coise Lionnet Geographies of Pain: Captive Bodies and Violent Acts in the fictions of Gayl Jones, Bessie Head and Myriam Warner-Vieyra, Contributors