The rapid upsurge of writing by African women has been one of the most dynamic, phenomenal trends of African literature at the end of the twentieth century. African women writers have come a long way since the 1960s when they were hardly acknowledged or noticed as serious writers. In the past four decades their works have been steadily rising in quantity and quality. Today these writers are seriously redefining images of womanhood, providing new visions, and reshaping erstwhile distorted characterizations of African women in fiction. ERNEST EMENYONU is Professor of the Department of Africana StudiesUniversity of Michigan-Flint. North America: Africa World Press; Nigeria: HEBN

About the Author
Ernest N. Emenyonu is Professor Emeritus of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA. He is Series Editor of African Literature Today. His publications include A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2017), Emerging Perspectives on Nawal El Saadawi (2010), and the children's book Uzoechi: A Story of African Childhood (2012).

Reviews
Ernest Emenyonu has certainly continued in the excellent tradition set by Eldred Jones, but he has widened the scope of the journal. There is every indication that this journal will be responding to the development of African literatures in its focus. -- Ezenwa-Ohaeto * RESEARCH IN AFRICAN LITERATURES *
The collection of essays is most valuable for the range of African women writers included - new voices addressing contemporary issues, established writers working in new genres. But above all, the way the critics included here root their perspectives in African contexts and draw on those approaches to women's writing which offer insight into their national and psychological realities, gives readers a clear sense of where women's writing in Africa is at the present. * ALA BULLETIN (African Literature Association) *



Book Information
ISBN 9780852555248
Author Ernest N Emenyonu
Format Paperback
Page Count 192
Imprint James Currey
Publisher James Currey
Weight(grams) 300g