Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Introduction - The New Female Subjectivities -- Chapter 1 - Silencing the Abusers -- Head's "Collector of Treasures" (1977) -- mariama Ba's So Long a Letter (1980) -- Yvonne Vera's Under the Tongue (1997) -- Neshani Andreas'Purple Violet of Oshaantu (2001) -- Sindiwe Magoma's Beauty's Gift (2008) -- Chapter 2 - Subjectivity in the "Eye" of Morrison -- Subjectivity and Identity in The Bluest Eye -- The Imaginary Other: the stage of mirroring others -- The Symbolic Other -- Chapter 3 - Rotimi's Drama and the Gender Issue -- II -- III -- IV -- Chapter 4 - Rethinking the African Woman's Identity -- Feminism in Nigerian Literature -- Rethinking Feminism and the African Identity -- Onwueme's Feminism in Tell it to Women -- The Social Context of African Feminine Identity -- Chapter 5 - The Conflicts of Fall and Osammar -- Chapter 6 - The Women of Ousmane and Dlamini -- Chapter 7 - Female Subjectivity in Achebe's Novels -- Chapter 8 - Female Sexuality in Bessora's Novel -- Rehearsing Sexuality: Yeno vs Modeste -- Normative Health and Fragmented Relations -- Yeno and 'les multitudes' -- Chapter 9 - Enekwe's Feminine Archetypes -- The Femme Fatale -- The Madonna -- Chapter 10 - Women, Race and Liberation -- Notes and Bibliography -- Back cover.