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(2019) Exploitation and misrule in colonial and postcolonial Africa, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Bámgbóṣé studies African women's poetry as a significant vehicle for framing imaginative and discursive responses to the violence of colonial experience in Africa. Considering that critical works engaging the colonial question in modern African poetry often limit their critique to anticolonial poetic production of men excluding women's intervention, this chapter interrogates the gender gap in literary discourses on imaginative responses to colonialism in the African poetic text. Through a rereading of the images of colonialism in ten poems of Alda do Espírito Santo and Maria Manuela Margarido, this chapter unpacks the textual/imagistic intricacies and assertive force of female poetry in service of the anticolonial imaginary within the specific context of São Tomé and Príncipe. The rereading radically challenges the androcentric consciousness of African poetic discourse.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-96496-6_4
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Bámgbóṣé, G. (2019)., Images of colonialism in the text of two African female poets, in K. Kalu & T. Falola (eds.), Exploitation and misrule in colonial and postcolonial Africa, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 77-99.
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