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Stories of women : gender and narrative in the postcolonial nation /
"Why is the nation in a postcolonial world so often seen as a motherland? This pathbreaking study, Stories of women: Gender and narrative in the postcolonial nation, explores the perennially fascinating relationship between gender icons and foundational fictions of the nation in different postc...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester ; New York : New York, NY, USA :
Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave,
2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Motherlands, mothers and nationalist sons: theorising the en-gendered nation
- "The master's dance to the master's voice": revolutionary nationalism and women's representation in Ngugi wa Thiong'o
- Of goddesses and stories: gender and a new politics in Achebe
- The hero's story: the male leader's autobiography and the syntax of postcolonial nationalism
- Stories of women and mothers: gender and nationalism in the early fiction of Flora Nwapa
- Daughters of the house: the adolescent girl and the nation
- Transfiguring: colonial body into postcolonial narrative
- The nation as metaphor: Ben Okri, Chenjerai Hove, Dambudzo Marachera
- East is east: where postcolonialism is neo-orientalist
- the cases of Sarojini Naidu and Arundhati Roy
- Tropes of yearning and dessent: the inflection of desire in Yvonne Vera and Tsitsi Dangarembga
- Beside the west: postcolonial women writers in a transnational frame
- Conclusion: defining the nation differently.