Recreating Ourselves is a selection of writings in which the author has critically and creatively pondered issues of gender, politics and social tranformation for at least three decades. Spanning the period between the 1970s and the 1990s, this collection highlights the most outstanding issues on the African continent-- political decolonization, the place of writing and the writer, decolonizing scholarship and research as well as modes of social activism. The book falls into two parts: the first part, theory, comprising theoretical essays on literature, women and society, leads into the second part, practice, which presents Ogundipe-Leslie's work as a social activist. Both parts are linked by her poetry.

Identifying the transformation as both challenge and re-creating, and seeking to begin anew on premises different and more humane, her vision centered around Africa, her suffering peoples and her women in particular, Ogundipe-Leslie brings fresh and liberatory perspectives to African literature, gender politics, and development. As she combines intellectual work with activism and creativity, she reveals her own insertion and those of other African women into the critical junctures of transformations in Africa today.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
MOLARA OGUNDIPE-LESLIE is a literary critic and one of the leading feminist/critical thinkers from Africa.

CATEGORY
Women's Studies, Political Sociology/AFRICA