Tell It to Women: An Epic Drama for Women

by Osonye Tess Onwueme, Ngugi wa Thiong'o (Foreword by)

Overview

Tell It To Women gives traditional rural women a voice: the women from Idu break from their assumed position of silence and powerlessness to confront the urban women who believe their western education gives them the authority to speak for all women.

Using the magic of movement, dance, and drama, and the devices of humor and metaphor, Osonye Tess Onwueme has created a post-feminist epic drama that transcends current feminist theories. An ideologically and politically powerful work, Tell It to Women offers a critical discourse on the western feminist movement from an African traditional perspective, focusing attention on the often silenced issues of intra-gender politics and class inequities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780814336779
Publisher:	Wayne State University Press
Publication date:	03/01/1997
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	216
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Osonye Tess Onwueme is Distinguished Professor of cultural diversity and professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire. The author of twelve plays, including Three Plays, Onwueme received her Ph.D. from the University of Benin.

Editorial Reviews

Onwueme is eminently a political dramatist, for power affects every other aspect of society. She explores these themes with a dazzling array of images and proverbs. Her drama and theater are a feast of music, dance, mime, proverbs, and story-telling. With Tell It to Women, Onwueme consolidates her position among the leading dramatists from Africa.

is a Kenyan author - Ngugi wa Thiong'o