Postcolonial Representations : Women, Literature, Identity /

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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
Autor principal: Lionnet, Françoise
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 1995.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Universidad Sergio Arboleda
Litterature anglophone > Histoire et critique.
Decolonisation.
Feminisme et litterature.
Litterature > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Femmes ecrivains > 20e siecle.
Femmes > Dans la litterature.
Femmes et litterature.
Vrouwelijke auteurs.
Letterkunde.
Postkolonialisme.
Identität > Motiv
Schwarze Frau
Soziale Identität
Literatur
Frauenliteratur
Entkolonialisierung
Women and literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Literature > Women authors.
Literature, Modern.
Group identity in literature.
Feminism and literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Feminist.
Femmes et litterature > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Écrits de femmes > Histoire et critique.
Identite collective dans la litterature.
Postcolonialisme dans la litterature.
Écrits de femmes.
Women and literature > History > 20th century.
Feminism and literature > History > 20th century.
Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism.
Literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Aufsatzsammlung.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 provide common ground for debates on such issues as multiculturalism, universalism, and relativism. Lionnet uses the concept of metissage, or cultural mixing, in her readings of a rich array of Francophone and Anglophone texts-by Michelle Cliff from Jamaica, Suzanne Dracius-Pinalie from Martinique, Ananda Devi from Mauritius, Maryse Conde and Myriam Warner-Vieyra from Guadeloupe, Gayl Jones from the United States, Bessie Head from Botswana, Nawal El Saadawi from Egypt, and Leila Sebbar from Algeria and France. Focusing on themes of exile and displacement and on narrative treatments of culturally sanctioned excision, polygamy, and murder, Lionnet examines the psychological and social mechanisms that allow individuals to negotiate conflicting cultural influences. In her view, these writers reject the opposition between self and other and base their self-portrayals on a metissage of forms and influences. Lionnet's perspective has much to offer critics and theorists, whether they are interested in First or Third World contexts, American or French critical perspectives, essentialist or poststructuralist epistemologies.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (208 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781501724541

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