1st Edition
Emotions in Muslim Hausa Women's Fiction More than Just Romance
By Umma Aliyu Musa
Copyright 2019
206 Pages
by
Routledge
206 Pages
by
Routledge
206 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book examines the emotions expressed in Hausa women’s prose fiction in northern Nigeria, showing how Hausa Muslim women writers use fiction in their indigenous language to demonstrate and express their anger about the problems they face in a patriarchal society. Umma Aliyu Musa shows how Hausa women authors use literature as a subversive instrument to voice their anger and draw attention... Read more
1. Statement of the problem: Introduction 2. The Development of Hausa Female Fiction Writing in Northern Nigeria 3. Marriage 4. Strategies for Respect 5. Body Related Metaphors for Anger in Hausa 6. Love, Hausa Narratives and Modernity 7. Conclusion
Biography
Umma Aliyu Musa is a lecturer at the Asia and Africa Institut at Hamburg University, Germany.
