出版社：Glendora International im African e-Journals Project
摘要：THIS has at least two marks of dis tinction to win the attention of any serious student of contemporary Nigerian literature, women and African studies. One, it is the first sustained book-length study of the tradition of the Nigerian novelby women spanning twentyeight years (1966 -1994). Second, it is perhaps the most significant theory of narrative by a Nigerian female critic on the most significant theory of narrative by a Nigerian female critic on the novel genre to date. Up till now, Lloyd W. Brown's Women Writers in Black Africa (1981) and Oladele Taiwo's Female Novelists of Modern Africa (1984) have been noted as standard reference texts by readers of African women's literature, South of Sahara. These and other secondary texts are mainly descriptive of feminist or female narrative and historical about the condition of African womenhood
