Open AccessConstructing Womanhood in Zimbabwean Literature: Noviolet Bulawayo and Petina Gappah
Author(s) -
Luiza Caraivan
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
gender studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.104
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 2286-0134
pISSN - 1583-980X
DOI - 10.2478/genst-2020-0005
Subject(s) - gender studies , sociology , feminism , anthropology
Literature written in English in the former British colonies of Southern Africa has attracted the public’s attention after the publication of Michael Chapman’s “Southern African Literaturesˮ (1996). The paper analyses the writings of two Zimbabwean authors - NoViolet Bulawayo (Elizabeth Zandile Tshele) and Petina Gappah – taking into account African feminist discourses.