Gender (Re)configuration in Nigerian Literature through Time and Space.
This article underscores how time and space have influenced the question of gender - its construction, representation and re-interpretation - in contemporary Nigerian literature. It examines various positions of male writers, such as Cyprian Ekwensi and Chinua Achebe, whose works entrenched a conser...
| Published in: | Journal of Literary Studies Vol. 34; no. 4; pp. 122 - 135 |
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Dec2018
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