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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, New York :
Cornell University Press,
1995.
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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.