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1. Women as Absented Presences: Gender and Nationalist Discourse in Bole Butake's Shoes and Four Men in Arms.

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Nkealah, Naomi

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*WOMEN in literature, *GENDER in literature, *NATIONALISM in literature, *NATIONALISM, *FEMINISM, *WOMEN in politics
Abstract

The article examines the relationship between gender and nationalism and the concept of women as abstracted presence in African author Bole Butake's play "Shoes and Four Men in Arms." Topics covered include the place of women in Butake's narration of political issues in Cameroon and the power he ascribed to women within nationalist politics and analysis of whether Butake portray women as participants or simply observers in policy-making processes.

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2014
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