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Awu's Story
At the dawn of the twenty-first century, villages in the Fang region of northern Gabon must grapple with the clash of tradition and the evolution of customs throughout modern Africa. With this tension in the background, the passionate, deft, and creative seamstress Awu marries Obame, after he and his beloved wife, Bella, have been unable to conceive. Because all three are reluctant participants in this arrangement, theirs is an emotionally fraught existence. Through heartbreaking and disastrous events, Awu grapples with long-standing Fang customs that counter her desire to take full control of her life and home. Supplemented with a foreword and critical introduction highlighting Justine Mintsa’s importance in African literature, Awu’s Story is an essential work of African women’s writing and the only published work to meditate this deeply on some of the Fang’s most cherished legends and oral history.
Sustaining Support for Intangible Cultural Heritage
Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) has recently grown as an analytical construct for documenting and interpreting culture, and as a canonical term to support official concepts of heritage. ICH, while compelling scholars to explore its multiple forms of expressive culture, has become codified through UNESCO, specifically within the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of ICH. This volume explores case studies from Gabon, India, Mozambique, Sri Lanka, and the USA to represent diverse positionalities and voices articulating the complexities, ambiguities and uncertainties within heritage discourses. The chapters illustrate how ICH, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, has become an analytical resource and a proscriptive device for safeguarding, presenting, and interpreting culture to a range of constituents, and will serve as a useful resource in the classroom for a range of fields, as well as for scholars and practitioners.
The Female Condition in the Novels of Gabonese Writer Sylvie Ntsame
This book argues that Gabonese writer Sylvie Ntsame utilizes her novels to question certain patriarchal traditions and practices in African society (such as polygyny) that, in certain contexts, tend to silence the voice of the female. Through engaging with feminist theories, among other theoretical frameworks, the author demonstrates how, in some of Ntsame’s novels, the black female body is an object of voyeurism that reduces the women to eroticized, exoticized Others. The author further argues that Ntsame counters the dystopia of racism with a depiction of idealized love through an interracial relationship, presented against the backdrop of stereotypes and myths that stifle such relationships. Ntsame does this by going back to her cultural roots, and calling for understanding between peoples of diverse ethnicities and cultures. The book makes valuable contributions to the study of Gabonese women’s writing in particular, and African women’s writing in general.
Women Writers of Gabon
Women Writers of Gabon: Literature and Herstory demonstrates how the invisibility of women (historically, politically, cross-culturally, etc.) has led to the omission of Gabon’s literature from the African canon, but it also discusses in depth the unique elements of Gabonese women’s writing that show it is worthy of critical recognition and that prove why Gabonese women writers must be considered a major force in African literature. This book is the only book-length critical study of Gabonese literature that exists in English and although there are titles in French that provide analyses of the works of Gabonese women writers, no one work is comprehensive nor is the history of women’s w...
The Fury and Cries of Women
Gabon’s first female novelist, Angèle Rawiri probed deeper into the issues that writers a generation before her—Mariama Bâ and Aminata Sow Fall—had begun to address. Translated by Sara Hanaburgh, this third novel of the three Rawiri published is considered the richest of her fictional prose. It offers a gripping account of a modern woman, Emilienne, who questions traditional values and seeks emancipation from them. Emilienne’s active search for feminism on her own terms is tangled up with cultural expectations and taboos of motherhood, marriage, polygamy, divorce, and passion. She completes her university studies in Paris; marries a man from another ethnic group; becomes a leader i...
Conjugal Rights
Conjugal Rights is a history of the role of marriage and other arrangements between men and women in Libreville, Gabon, during the French colonial era, from the mid–nineteenth century through 1960. Conventional historiography has depicted women as few in number and of limited influence in African colonial towns, but this book demonstrates that a sexual economy of emotional, social, legal, and physical relationships between men and women indelibly shaped urban life. Bridewealth became a motor of African economic activity, as men and women promised, earned, borrowed, transferred, and absconded with money to facilitate interpersonal relationships. Colonial rule increased the fluidity of custo...
Lengua, literatura y ciencias de la educación en los sistemas educativos del África Subsahariana
Cuando observamos en 2014 la realidad, tan compleja y a veces descarnada, que viven muchos pueblos y naciones africanas, con frecuencia cargados de desequilibrios e injusticias sociales, de pobreza e incultura, víctimas de guerras y expolios de bienes naturales y recursos energéticos por parte de nuevos imperios neocoloniales, no nos queda más remedio que refugiarnos en los instrumentos que se erigen al final en los definitivos y más influyentes para defender los derechos de los ciudadanos africanos, sus intereses personales y comunitarios, sus tradiciones y culturas. Y estos nos parecen que no pueden ser otros que el estudio científico de los problemas lingüísticos y de educativos. L...
La violence de la vie quotidienne à Libreville
Cet ouvrage offre une micro-analyse du quotidien des habitants de Libreville, en s'attachant à une dimension incontournable des échanges et des pratiques qui s'y donnent à voir : leur violence. Les articles examinent cette violence ordinaire et latente de la vie quotidienne à Libreville, démontrant comment violence des rapports sociaux, violence des institutions et violence de l'invisible s'entrecroisent.
Kinshasa à l'épreuve de la désagrégation nationale
La République démocratique du Congo reste confrontée à une éternelle convoitise internationale, à une permanente crise économique et sociale. L'insécurité politique, économique et sociale a engendré un développement anarchique des grandes villes, dont Kinshasa la capitale. Mégalopole, cette dernière concentre tous les aspects de ces réalités. Pourquoi ce rendez-vous manqué ou ajourné d'un pôle de développement en Afrique centrale ? Problème de bonne gouvernance, de structures ou des institutions ?
