"A luta continua" - Florence Stratton's Contemporary African Literature and the Politics of Gender today

In her study on critical theory and the construction of gender with respect to the work of four African women writers, Florence Stratton demonstrates that almost right from the beginning of postcolonial African novel writing, interactions between men and women intellectuals played a significant role in negotiating the roles of women, often in critical conversation with colonial images. Through these complex intertextual, interpersonal and cross-linguistic interactions, ways of representation of African women and the roles of women in African decolonial societies are negotiated and reformulated. Florence Stratton thereby highlights the interwoven and dynamic character of the works of these writers, instead of presenting them as distinct and closed.