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Author | : Gina Wisker |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2017-03-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0333985249 |
Download Post-Colonial and African American Women's Writing Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This accessible and unusually wide-ranging book is essential reading for anyone interested in postcolonial and African American women's writing. It provides a valuable gender and culture inflected critical introduction to well established women writers: Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Margaret Atwood, Suniti Namjoshi, Bessie Head, and others from the U.S.A., India, Africa, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and introduces emergent writers from South East Asia, Cyprus and Oceania. Engaging with and clarifying contested critical areas of feminism and the postcolonial; exploring historical background and cultural context, economic, political, and psychoanalytic influences on gendered experience, it provides a cohesive discussion of key issues such as cultural and gendered identity, motherhood, mothertongue, language, relationships, women's economic constraints and sexual politics.
Author | : Sunita Sinha |
Publisher | : Atlantic Publishers & Dist |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9788126909858 |
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Author | : Françoise Lionnet |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2018-07-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1501724541 |
Download Postcolonial Representations Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Passionate allegiances to competing theoretical camps have stifled dialogue among today's literary critics, asserts Françoise Lionnet. Discussing a number of postcolonial narratives by women from a variety of ethnic and cultural backgrounds, she offers a comparative feminist approach that can provide common ground for debates on such issues as multiculturalism, universalism, and relativism. Lionnet uses the concept of métissage, or cultural mixing, in her readings of a rich array of Francophone and Anglophone texts—by Michelle Cliff from Jamaica, Suzanne Dracius-Pinalie from Martinique, Ananda Devi from Mauritius, Maryse Conde and Myriam Warner-Vieyra from Guadeloupe, Gayl Jones from the United States, Bessie Head from Botswana, Nawal El Saadawi from Egypt, and Leila Sebbar from Algeria and France. Focusing on themes of exile and displacement and on narrative treatments of culturally sanctioned excision, polygamy, and murder, Lionnet examines the psychological and social mechanisms that allow individuals to negotiate conflicting cultural influences. In her view, these writers reject the opposition between self and other and base their self-portrayals on a métissage of forms and influences. Lionnet's perspective has much to offer critics and theorists, whether they are interested in First or Third World contexts, American or French critical perspectives, essentialist or poststructuralist epistemologies.
Author | : Elleke Boehmer |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2013-07-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1847796060 |
Download Stories of women Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Elleke Boehmer's work on the crucial intersections between independence, nationalism and gender has already proved canonical in the field. 'Stories of women' combines her keynote essays on the mother figure and the postcolonial nation, with incisive new work on male autobiography, 'daughter' writers, the colonial body, the trauma of the post-colony, and the nation in a transnational context. Focusing on Africa as well as South Asia, and sexuality as well as gender, Boehmer offers fine close readings of writers ranging from Achebe, Okri and Mandela to Arundhati Roy and Yvonne Vera, shaping these into a critical engagement with theorists of the nation like Fredric Jameson and Partha Chatterjee. This edition will be of interest to readers and researchers of postcolonial, international and women's writing; of nation theory, colonial history and historiography; of Indian, African, migrant and diasporic literatures, and is likely to prove a landmark study in the field.
Author | : Ketu Katrak |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2006-02-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0813539307 |
Download The Politics of the Female Body Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Is it possible to simultaneously belong to and be exiled from a community? In Politics of the Female Body, Ketu H. Katrak argues that it is not only possible, but common, especially for women who have been subjects of colonial empires. Through her careful analysis of postcolonial literary texts, Katrak uncovers the ways that the female body becomes a site of both oppression and resistance. She examines writers working in the English language, including Anita Desai from India, Ama Ata Aidoo from Ghana, and Merle Hodge from Trinidad, among others. The writers share colonial histories, a sense of solidarity, and resistance strategies in the on-going struggles of decolonization that center on the body. Bringing together a rich selection of primary texts, Katrak examines published novels, poems, stories, and essays, as well as activist materials, oral histories, and pamphlets—forms that push against the boundaries of what is considered strictly literary. In these varied materials, she reveals common political and feminist alliances across geographic boundaries. A unique comparative look at women’s literary work and its relationship to the body in third world societies, this text will be of interest to literary scholars and to those working in the fields of postcolonial studies and women’s studies.
Author | : Ketu H. Katrak |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0813537150 |
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Is it possible to simultaneously belong to and be exiled from a community? Arguing that it is possible, the author uncovers the ways that the female body becomes a site of both oppression and resistance. She reveals common political and feminist alliances across geographic boundaries.
Author | : Alison Blunt |
Publisher | : Guilford Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1994-08-19 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780898624984 |
Download Writing Women and Space Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Drawing lessons from the complex and often contradictory position of white women writing in the colonial period, This unique book explores how feminism and poststructuralism can bring new types of understanding to the production of geographical knowledge. Through a series of colonial and postcolonial case studies, essays address the ways in which white women have written and mapped different geographies, in both the late nineteenth century and today, illustrating the diverse objects (landscapes, spaces, views), the variety of media (letters, travel writing, paintings, sculpture, cartographic maps, political discourse), and the different understandings and representations of people and place.
Author | : Anna Rutherford |
Publisher | : Armidale, N.S.W. : Dangaroo Press |
Total Pages | : 656 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
Download Into the Nineties Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A collection of critical essays and creative pieces by leading international women writers and academics.
Author | : Kirsten Holst Petersen |
Publisher | : Mundelstrup, Denmark : Dangaroo Press |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : African literature (English) |
ISBN | : |
Download A Double Colonization Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Feroza F. Jussawalla |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780878055722 |
Download Interviews with Writers of the Post-colonial World Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Interviews with third-world and Chicano authors speaking about their place in the literary canon