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Violence in Francophone African & Caribbean women's literature /

Chantal Kalisa examines the ways in which women writers lift taboos imposed on them by their society and culture and challenge readers with their unique perspectives on violence. Comparing women from different places and times, Kalisa treats types of violence such as colonial, familial, linguistic,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kalisa, Chantal
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Title page; Copyright page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Geographies of Pain; 1. Exclusion as Violence: Frantz Fanon, Black Women, and Colonial Violence; 2. Representing Colonial Violence: Michèle Lacrosil's Cajou, Ken Bugul's Le baobab fou, and Ousmane Sembène's La noire de . . .; 3. Writing Familial Violence: Storytelling and Intergenerational Violence in Simone Schwarz-Bart'sPluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle and Calixthe Beyala's Tu t' appelleras Tanga.