Ethics and Human Rights in Anglophone African Women’s Literature: Feminist Empathy

Abstract

While African women’s literature has been analysed from a feminist point of view, including by Florence Stratton (1994) and Stephanie Newell (2017), the discussion often latches onto post-colonialism. Eze brings a new angle to the topic by utilising empathy as a tool to analyse the evolution of feminist African literature, relating as an African man to the suffering of African women by putting himself in fictional characters’ shoes. Each chapter discusses different aspects of human rights, with an emphasis on women's bodies being subjected to pain.