Recreating Words, Reshaping Worlds

Recreating Words, Reshaping Worlds: The Verbal Art Of Women From Niger, Mali And Senegal. This ground-breaking book examines the verbal art of women from three Sahelian societies. It relates West African women's voices to a broader literary, political, and cultural context and succeeds in crossing traditional disciplinary boundaries. In her book, Sidikou argues that through verbal art women create a ritual space that serves as the locus of both their creativity and their efforts to negotiate power as well as to affirm their own selfhood.