Browsing by Author "Mpale Yvonne Mwansasu Silkiluwasha"

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    Alterity in Hybridity:Examining the Impact of Globalization on African Children's Literature through the Works of Tololwa M. Mollel
    (Sankofa: A Journal of African Children's and Young Adult Literature, 2012) Mpale Yvonne Mwansasu Silkiluwasha
    The articles examines the stereotype of the younger generation holding decision-making power over adults in three picture books by Tanzanian author Tololwa Mollel, namely “Song Bird”, “Orphan Boy”, and “Shadow Dance”. It demonstrates that the author compromises the interests of Africans by striving to adopt Western values. It explores the theory of hybridity by Homi Bhabha, which calls for the construction of new identity for immigrant writers who live in Western countries.
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    Can't a Girl have it All? Interrogating Gender Paradigms in Ama Ata Aidoo's The Girl Who Can and Other Stories.
    (Tanzania Journal of Population Studies and Development, 2015) Mpale Yvonne Mwansasu Silkiluwasha
    This article seeks to explore Ama Ata Aidioo’s (2002) work for the purpose of interrogating how African feminists and/or women writers represent challenges facing African women, as well as suggested or implied solutions to their problems. The analysis interprets four stories: “Lice”, “Comparisons”, “The Girl Who Can”, and “Heavy Moments” in an attempts to identify elements of women’s oppressions under patriarchy rule, and to what extent women can challenge that system. Although some female characters in these stories have proved to challenge the system and subverted men’s hierarchy, the underlying implications as to what a woman ought to do to overcome the oppression leaves a lot to be desired. The article attempts to disentangle Aidoos’s narratives, and in the process of disentangling it demonstrates newly established feminist constructs that ought to be subverted.
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    Diasporic Post-Colonial African Children's Books and the Logic of Abjection
    (Marang: Journal of Language and Literature, 2015) Mpale Yvonne Mwansasu Silkiluwasha
    Lacan's mirror stage points out to the human tendency in desiring wholeness while objecting what is considered to be the lack, and in this article whiteness represents the desired wholeness. using children's books written by diasporic writers I demonstrate the logic of abjection while analyzing the inability of these writers to establish the symbolic identity.