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Article: Writing New H(er)stories.(francophone women authors, Africa and the Caribbean)(Critical Essay)
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- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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FOR FRANCOPHONE WOMEN OF AFRICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
Self-sacrifice -- as the major ethic of the female culture -- has been one of the most effective psychological blocks to women's open rebellion and demand for self-determination. It has also been a major tool of male manipulation of females.
-- Phyllis Chesler Women and Madness
At the dawn of a new millenium, the work of contemporary francophone women authors must be considered as situated at the crossroads of history and philosophy. On the historical level, women's writing in Africa and the Caribbean was rarely referenced for the first half of the past century. Women have usually had their ...