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Postcolonial representations : women, literature, identity /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lionnet, Françoise
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 1995.
Colección:Reading women writing.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Logiques métisses : cultural appropriation and postcolonial representations
  • Of mangoes and maroons : language, history, and the multicultural subject of Michelle Cliff's Abeng
  • Evading the subject : narration and the city in Ananda Devi's Rue la poudrière
  • Toward a new antillean humanism : Maryse Condé's Traversée de la mangrove
  • Inscriptions of exile : the body's knowledge and the myth of authenticity in Myriam Warner-Vieyra and Suzanne Dracius-Pinalie
  • Geographies of pain : captive bodies and violent acts in Myriam Warner-Vieyra, Gayl Jones, and Bessie Head
  • Dissymmetry embodied : Nawal El Saadawi's Woman at point zero and the practice of excision
  • The limits of universalism : identity, sexuality, and criminality
  • Narrative journeys : the reconstruction of histories in Leïla Sebbar's Les carnets de Shérazade.