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Mothering across cultures : postcolonial representations /

Blending the personal and the historical, the practical and the theoretical, Angelita Reyes draws on a wide range of texts from Africa and the African diaspora to establish mothering as a paradigm of progressive feminisms. Reyes creates a comparative dialogue among the fictions of five postcolonial...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Reyes, Angelita Dianne
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: I'm Not Mad, I'm Postcolonial, a Woman, and a Mother; ONE: Taking Flight and Taking Foot: From Margaret Garner to Beloved; TWO: Surrogate Mothering: Maroon Nanny, Jean Rhys, and Marronage; THREE: Refusing to Live on Scent: Textures of Memory by Way of Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle; FOUR: Crossing Bridges and Memory-Telling: Une si longue lettre; FIVE: From a Lineage of Southern Women: She Has Left Us Empty and Full of Her; APPENDIXES; Notes; Bibliography; Index.