{"id":20886,"date":"2011-12-23T20:57:09","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T20:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/12\/africa-the-nation-writ-small-by-susan-z-andrade\/"},"modified":"2011-12-23T20:57:09","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T20:57:09","slug":"africa-the-nation-writ-small-by-susan-z-andrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/23\/africa-the-nation-writ-small-by-susan-z-andrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: The Nation Writ Small by Susan Z. Andrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dukeupress.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Duke University Press<\/a> (Durham,\u00a0NC)<\/p>\n<p>23 December 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>book listing<\/p>\n<p>In The Nation Writ Small, Susan Z. Andrade focuses on the work of Africa\u2019s first post-independence generation of novelists, explaining why male writers came to be seen as the voice of Africa\u2019s new nation-states, and why African women writers\u2019 commentary on national politics was overlooked.<\/p>\n<p>Since Africa\u2019s early female novelists tended to write about the family, while male authors often explicitly addressed national politics, it was assumed that the women writers were uninterested in the nation and the public sphere. Challenging that notion, Andrade argues that the female authors engaged national politics through allegory. In their work, the family stands for the nation; it is the nation writ small. Interpreting fiction by women, as well as several feminist male authors, she analyzes novels by Flora Nwapa and Buchi Emecheta (Nigeria); novellas by Ousmane Sembene, Mariama B\u00e2, and Aminata Sow Fall (Senegal); and Bildungsromans by Tsitsi Dangarembga (Zimbabwe), Nuruddin Farah (Somalia), and Assia Djebar (Algeria). Andrade reveals Africa\u2019s early women novelists&#8217; influence on later generations of female authors, and she highlights the moment when African women began to write about macropolitics explicitly rather than allegorically.<\/p>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Duke University Press (Durham,\u00a0NC) 23 December 2011 book listing In The Nation Writ Small, Susan Z. Andrade focuses on the work of Africa\u2019s first post-independence generation of novelists, explaining why male writers came to be seen as the voice of Africa\u2019s new nation-states, and why African women writers\u2019 commentary on national politics was overlooked. Since Africa\u2019s early female novelists tended to write about the family, while male authors often explicitly addressed national politics, it was assumed that the women writers were uninterested in the nation and the public sphere. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Africa: The Nation Writ Small by Susan Z. 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