Cargando…
Women's identities and bodies in colonial and postcolonial history and literature /
Since the second half of the twentieth century, there has been a commitment on the part of women writers and scholars to revise and rewrite the history and culture of colonial and post-colonial women. This collection intends to enter a forum of discussion in which the colonial past serves as a point...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Otros Autores: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Newcastle upon Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars,
2012.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Bodies revisited? Representations of the embodied self in janet Frame's and Lauris Edmond's autobiographies / Valerie Baisnee
- 2. 'All my weapons within me' bodily archives in the Caribbean diaspora / Manuela Coppola
- 3. Restoring the real : rememorying the maternal body and recovery in Toni Morrison's 'Sula' and 'Beloved' / Wang Lei
- 4. The taming o fthe Creole : the (little) death of otherness in 'Wide Sargasso Sea' / Mariacristina Natalia Bertoli
- 5. Challening the tragic Mulatto stereotype in three 19th century African American texts / Silvia Pilar Castro-Borrego
- 6. Remapping the racialized body in Bharati Mukherjee's 'A Whide's Story' / Stefanovici Smaranda
- 7. Shaping female identities and bodies : the national vigilance association and the social purity movement / Maria Isabel Romero-Ruiz
- 8. From public body to corpse : the appropriation of the female body in Barker's 'Blow Your House Down' and Atkinson's 'One Good Turn' / Beatriz Dominguez-Garcia.