In her book, Susan Arndt discusses and defines the nature of African feminism and African-feminist literatures. Taking account of African-feminist literatures’ heterogeneity as well, in a second step its varieties are discussed and grouped into a classification model. Arndt distinguishes three main currents of feminism: reformist, transformative and radical African-feminist literatures. The workability of this classification model is put to the test, illustrated and exemplified with interpretations of selected African-feminist prose texts by African women writers of different regional, religious and generational backgrounds: Grace Ogot, Ifeoma Okoye, Flora Nwapa, Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo, Mariama Bâ, Buchi Emecheta, Bessie Head, Pat Ngurukie, Nawal El Saadawi and Calixthe Beyala.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Susan Arndt studied English, German and African Studies at the University of London (SOAS) and Humboldt-University, Berlin, where she also received her PhD in 1997. After being a Research Fellow at St. Anthony's College in Oxford, Humboldt-University at Berlin and the Center for Literary Research (Berlin), she now teaches at the University of Frankfurt/Main. She published on feminism and gender in African literatures, intertextuality between orature and literature, exophony, and in the field of diaspora, postcolonial and critical whiteness studies.