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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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