"With Tell It to Women, Onwueme consolidates her position among the leading dramatists from Africa."
Tell It to Women
An Epic Drama for Women
By Osonye Tess Onwueme
Paper - 9780814326497
Price: $21.95s
Published 1997
Pages: 240
Subjects: Africana Studies: Theatre, Art, and Film
Series: African American Life Series
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Description
Tell It To Women gives traditional rural women a voice: the women from Idu break from their assumed position of silence and powerlessness to confront the urban women who believe their western education gives them the authority to speak for all women.
Published by Wayne State University Press
Reviews
"Onwueme is eminently a political dramatist, for power affects every other aspect of society. She explores these themes with a dazzling array of images and proverbs. Her drama and theater are a feast of music, dance, mime, proverbs, and story-telling. With Tell It to Women, Onwueme consolidates her position among the leading dramatists from Africa."
— Ngugi wa Thiong'o