This book proposes feminist empathy as a model of interpretation in the works of contemporary
Anglophone African women writers. The African woman's body is often portrayed as having been
disabled by the patriarchal and sexist structures of society. Returning to their bodies as a
point of reference rather than the postcolonial ideology of empire contemporaryAfrican women
writers demand fairness and equality. By showing how this literature deploys imaginative shifts
in perspective with women experiencing unfairness injustice or oppression because of their
gender Chielozona Eze argues that by considering feminist empathy discussions open up about
how this literature directly addresses the systems that put them in disadvantaged positions.
This book therefore engages a new ethical and human rights awareness in African literary and
cultural discourses highlighting the openness to reality that is compatible with African
multi-ethnic multi-racial and increasingly cosmopolitan communities.
