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Werewere Liking (born 1950, in
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. She established the Ki-Yi Mbock theatre troupe in 1980 and founded the Ki-Yi village in 1985 for the artistic education of young people. Her novel ''Elle sera de jaspe et de corail'' is a song-novel recounted by an astute ''misovire'' (literally 'man-hater' from misos Gr. "hate" and vir Lat. "man") in writing a journal on nine themes as a dialectic between two men wherein the author of the journal imagines a new race of people uninhibited by the historical baggage of patriarchy and colonialism. She is the author of the African feminist theory "misovirism." She received a
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in 2000 for her contributions to culture and society, and the
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in 2005 for her book ''La mémoire amputée''.


Writing

Her books and plays include: * ''La mémoire amputée'', Nouvelles Editions Ivoiriennes (2004), * ''Elle sera de jaspe et de corail'', Editions L'Harmattan (1983), - trans. Marjolijn De Jager, ''It shall be of jasper and coral; and, Love-across-a-hundred-lives'' (two novels), University Press of Virginia (2000), * ''La puissance de Um'' (1979) and ''Une nouvelle terre'' (1980) - trans. Jeanne Dingome, ''African Ritual Theatre: The Power of Um and a New Earth'', International Scholars Pubs. (1997),


Further reading

* Simon Gikandi, ''Encyclopedia of African Literature'', Routledge (2002), - pp. 288–9 * Katheryn Wright, ''Extending generic boundaries: Werewere Liking's L'amour-cent-vies'', in Research in African Literatures, June 2002 accessed a

March 5, 2007 * Don Rubin, ''World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre: Africa'', Routledge (2000), * Nicki Hitchcott, ''Women Writers in Francophone Africa'', Berg Publishers (2000), - focuses on
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Aminata Sow Fall Aminata Sow Fall (born 27 April 1941) is a Senegalese-born author. While her native language is Wolof, her books are written in French. She is considered "the first published woman novelist from francophone Black Africa". Margaret Busby, '' Daug ...
, Werewere Liking and
Calixthe Beyala Calixthe Beyala (born 1961) is a Cameroonian-French writer who writes in French. Biography A Cameroonian author and member of the Eton people, Calixthe Beyala was born in Sa'a to Cameroonian parents. Her aunt and grandmother were particula ...
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* Peter Hawkins, ''Werewere Liking at the Villa Ki-Yi'', in African Affairs, Vol.90, No.359 (Apr. 1991), pp. 207–222 - accessed a

March 1, 2007


Notes


External links


Werewere Liking Gnepo, University of Western Australia


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