“My Story Bursts Forth…”: Re-visioning Female Subjecthood in Gendered Folktales in Northern Ghana
| dc.contributor.author | Yitah, H. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-06-18T09:49:37Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-06-18T09:49:37Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-11 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper examines contemporary retellings of Ghanaian (Kasem) folktales that engage critically with the social roles and cultural values in the tra-ditional corpus. While in traditional folktales supernatural forces are unleashed to punish females who pursue their own strivings, thus regulating gender iden-tity, in the retold tales female protagonists deploy nantandia, a local Kasem term which encompasses intelligence, initiative and courage, to thwart the power of the supernatural and assert their own subjecthood. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | https://doi.org/10.1515/fabula-2018-0104 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://ugspace.ug.edu.gh/handle/123456789/30886 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Fabula | en_US |
| dc.title | “My Story Bursts Forth…”: Re-visioning Female Subjecthood in Gendered Folktales in Northern Ghana | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
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