Gender Voices and Choices: Redefining Women in Contemporary African Fiction.

Gender Voices and Choices: Redefining Women in Contemporary African Fiction, by Gloria Chukukere. Enugu: Fourth Dimension, 1995. Distributed by African Books Collective Ltd., 27 Park End Street, Oxford OX1 1HU United Kingdom.

Only in the past fifteen years have African women writers begun to receive serious critical attention. Earlier, critics had created and consolidated an exclusively male canon of "great" African writers whose work became a critical yardstick against which to judge all others. Besides establishing the critical norms, male writers also established the fictional norms for the representation of the African woman. According to Gloria Chukukere, contemporary African women …