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In Africana women’s literary criticism, there has been a lot written on whether women literary critics hold to the feminist, African feminist or womanist point of view (Etim, 2000a, pp. 71–72; Ogunyemi, 1993). There has also been the question of whether African female writers write from the feminist or womanist perspective.
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Etim, J. (2016). Women and Society in Female Authored Short Stories and Poems From Namibia. In: Etim, J. (eds) Introduction to Gender Studies in Eastern and Southern Africa. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-558-6_2
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