TY - JOUR
T1 - Examining the dynamic evolution of African feminisms
T2 - María Nsué Angüe and Guillermina Mekuy Mba-Obono in perspective
AU - Adokarley Lomotey, Benedicta
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2025 African Literature Association.
PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - Drawing on the theoretical frameworks of postcolonial African feminism and dialogism (Bakhtin), the current study compares María Nsué Angüe’s Ekomo (1985), and Guillermina Mekuy Mba-Obono’s Tres almas para un corazón (2011) [Three Souls for One Heart]. By engaging with these first- and third-generation African women writers, I show how African women writers have adjusted the forms of feminism they embrace over time, and contribute to African studies broadly, including the less-familiar African Hispanophone literary tradition. While the study centers primarily on the aforementioned works, two Anglophone novels, namely Flora Nwapa’s Efuru (1966) and Lola Shoneyin’s The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives (2010) will be used as points of comparison. The analysis confirms that contemporary African feminist writers have moved from focusing on (post)colonial discourse to a redefinition of womanhood that involves both the quest for self-fulfillment and transnational issues.
AB - Drawing on the theoretical frameworks of postcolonial African feminism and dialogism (Bakhtin), the current study compares María Nsué Angüe’s Ekomo (1985), and Guillermina Mekuy Mba-Obono’s Tres almas para un corazón (2011) [Three Souls for One Heart]. By engaging with these first- and third-generation African women writers, I show how African women writers have adjusted the forms of feminism they embrace over time, and contribute to African studies broadly, including the less-familiar African Hispanophone literary tradition. While the study centers primarily on the aforementioned works, two Anglophone novels, namely Flora Nwapa’s Efuru (1966) and Lola Shoneyin’s The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives (2010) will be used as points of comparison. The analysis confirms that contemporary African feminist writers have moved from focusing on (post)colonial discourse to a redefinition of womanhood that involves both the quest for self-fulfillment and transnational issues.
KW - African feminist thinking
KW - African Hispanophone and Anglophone literature
KW - Ekomo
KW - Tres almas para un corazón
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85214429112&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/21674736.2024.2437274
DO - 10.1080/21674736.2024.2437274
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85214429112
SN - 2167-4736
JO - Journal of the African Literature Association
JF - Journal of the African Literature Association
ER -