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| Preface: A Hybrid Text | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction: A Question of Power | 1 | |
| Interactive Readings | ||
| Hidden Prejudices | ||
| The Self-Contextualized Critic: Foregrounding Our Prejudices and Traditions | ||
| The Language of Perspicuous Contrast | ||
| 1 | The Author - and Reader - as Other: A Postmodern Approach to African Fiction | 17 |
| Hermeneutic Charity | ||
| Questioning Liberalism and Liberal Feminism | ||
| A Postmodern Approach | ||
| Reconfiguring Authors and Readers | ||
| 2 | Aesthetics, Language, and Politics | 33 |
| Definitions of Individuality and Aesthetic Consequences | ||
| Art for Art's Sake? | ||
| Artistic Commitment - To Whom and to What? | ||
| Dialogic Heteroglossia: Whose English Is It? | ||
| Epistemology and Narrative Form | ||
| 3 | Life as an Emigre | 51 |
| A Double Marginality | ||
| Intelligibility and the (Social) Construction of Rationality | ||
| A Difference in Values: The Individual and the Community | ||
| Retaining and Translating a Cultural Heritage | ||
| Love, Marriage, and Narrative Consequences | ||
| A Defense of African Culture and Corruption in the West | ||
| A Matter of Signifying and Dialogic Heteroglossia | ||
| 4 | The Sense of an Ending | 77 |
| A Matter of Genres | ||
| Narrative Intentions | ||
| Epic or Novel? | ||
| Heteroglossia and Textual Plurality | ||
| Competing Discourses and the Construction of Reality | ||
| Narrative Telos | ||
| A Melange of Customs and Hybrid Constructions | ||
| Questions of Enslavement, Prologues, and Endings | ||
| Human Constants and Dialogic Heteroglossia | ||
| Christianity and the Role of Nigerian Women | ||
| The Competing Voices of Tradition and Modernization | ||
| Signifying and the Question of Endings | ||
| Inscribing the Feminine | ||
| 5 | The Difference of View | 127 |
| Traversing (Traditional) Boundaries | ||
| From a Woman's Perspective | ||
| Sexual/Textual Politics | ||
| Double-Voiced Discourse and Interpretive Dilemmas | ||
| Didacticism and Heteroglossia | ||
| That Which Divides Us | ||
| Limitations of Cultural Relativism | ||
| Enlarging Our Horizons | ||
| The Agonistics of Language Games | ||
| Textual Ambiguity: Moments of Misunderstanding | ||
| A New Community of Interpreters | ||
| Bibliography | 169 | |
| Index | 185 |
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reviewed Reading Buchi Emecheta: Cross-Cultural Conversations, Vol. 61 on September 20, 2013
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