Politics of (M)Othering

This collection is a study of African literature framed by the central and multi-faceted idea of 'mother' - motherland mothertongue motherwit motherhood mothering - looking at the paradoxical location of (m)other as both central and marginal. Whilst the volume stands as a sustained feminist analysis it engages feminist theory itself by showing how issues in feminism are in African literature recast in different and complex ways.