Muse and Power: African Women Writers and Digital Infrastructure in World Literature.

Summary: This article explores how women writers in Nigeria and Tanzania use digital media, drawing parallels between infrastructural enablement and literary worldmaking. It argues that female African writers offer insights into the embodied practices and cultural imaginaries of digitally mediated c...

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Published in:	Anthropology & Humanism Vol. 44; no. 1; pp. 20 - 38
Main Author:	Uimonen, Paula
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell Jun2019
Subjects:	African women authors Digital media Creativity in literature Social media in literature Nigeria
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost

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Summary:	Summary: This article explores how women writers in Nigeria and Tanzania use digital media, drawing parallels between infrastructural enablement and literary worldmaking. It argues that female African writers offer insights into the embodied practices and cultural imaginaries of digitally mediated creativity, which can shed light on the paradoxical entanglements of infrastructure.