4 - Re-membering Wangari Maathai’s Feminist Scholarship in her Autobiography Unbowed: One Woman’s Story
Corresponding Author(s) : Stephen M. Mutie
Revue de l’enseignement supérieur en Afrique,
Vol. 20 No 1 (2022): Revue de l’enseignement supérieur en Afrique
Résumé
Alors que les chercheurs ont proposé d’interrompre et de résister à la vision androcentrique dominante dans la société kenyane, et, bien sûr, certains de ces moyens ont porté leurs fruits, cet article propose de se pencher sur les récits des femmes tels que relatés dans leurs autobiographies. Cet article est donc une analyse interprétative de l’autobiographie Unbowed: One Woman’s Story par la professeure Wangari Maathai. Nous espérons que cette histoire personnelle répondra à des questions théoriques particulières qui sous-tendent la compréhension et la conceptualisation du féminisme par les Wanjiku (femmes pauvres) au Kenya. En toile de fond de cette question, se trouve l’hypothèse fondamentale selon laquelle le féminisme au Kenya a besoin d’être repensé et éventuellement reconceptualisé pour faire face aux échecs et revers auxquels il a été confronté. Tout en basant son interrogation sur les fondements théoriques du féminisme postcolonial, l’article adopte une approche qualitative dans le cadre de la conception de la recherche. Interprétative, l’étude s’appuie sur une méthodologie de critique littéraire pour analyser Unbowed de Wangari Maathai. La principale préoccupation est d’interroger la façon dont l’autobiographie de Maathai recadre la recherche féministe au Kenya, en particulier en soulignant l’importance des Wanjiku comme une ressource clé dans toute initiative féministe.
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Les références
Calinescu, M., 1993, ‘Modernity, modernism, modernisation: variations on modern themes’, Symplokē 1(1): 1–20.
Carby, H., 2013, ‘White Woman Listen! Black Feminism and the Boundaries of Sisterhood’, in S. Harris and L. Hughes, eds, A Feminist Reader: Feminist Thought from Sappho to Satrapi. Vol IV 1981–2003, Cambridge and New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
Diaw, A., 2007, ‘Sewing machines and computers? Seeing gender ininstitutional and intellectual cultures at the Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar, Senegal’, Feminist Africa 9: Rethinking Universities II, Cape Town: African Gender Institute.
Fox, D., 2009, ‘The Anthropological Collaborator: Feminist Scholarship and Activism in Africa’, in M. Ndulo and M. Grieco, eds, Power, Gender and Social Change in Africa, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Fuss, D., ed., 1991, Inside/Out, New York, NY: Routledge.
Garber, M., 1992, Vested Interests: Cross Dressing and Cultural Anxiety, New York, NY: Routledge.
Goldberg, J., ed., 1994, Queering the Renaissance, Durham, NC, Duke University Press.
Iheka, C., 2017, ‘Pope Francis’ integral ecology and environmentalism for the poor’, Environmental Ethics 39: 243–60.
Maathai, W., 2006, Unbowed: One Woman’s Story, London: Heinemann.
Mama, A., 1996, Women’s Studies and Studies of Women in Africa during the 1990s, Working Paper Series 5/96, Dakar: CODESRIA.
Mama, A., 2005, ‘Gender Studies for Africa’s Intellectual Transformation’, in T. Mkandawire, ed., African Intellectuals: Rethinking Politics, Language, Gender and Development, London: Zed Books.
Mohanty, C.T., Russo, A., and Torres, L., 1991, Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
Nyongesa, A., Murimi G., and Makokha, J., 2021, ‘Otherness and marginal spaces: beyond politics and race in contemporary African novels’, Imbizo 12 (1): 16 pp, available at https://doi.org/10.25159/2663-6565/7694.
Odiemo-Munara, L., 2008, ‘Women engagement with power and authority in writing East Africa’, paper presented at CODESRIA’s 12th General Assembly, Governing the African Public Sphere, Yaoundé, 7–11 December.
Osirim, M., 2009, ‘Mobilising for Change Locally and Globally: African Women as Scholar-Activists in Feminist and Gender Studies’, in M. Ndulo and M. Grieco, eds, Power, Gender and Social Change in Africa, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Shiva, V., 1988, Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, and Development, London: Zed Books.
Woolf, V., 1977, A Room of One’s Own, London: Grafton.