Rites of passage in postcolonial women's writing /

This volume brings a variety of new approaches and contexts to modem and contemporary women's writing. Contributors include both new and well-established scholars from Europe, Australia, the USA, and the Caribbean. Their essays draw on, adapt, and challenge anthropological perspectives on rites...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Dodgson-Katiyo, Pauline (Editor ), Wisker, Gina, 1951- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2010.
Colección:Cross/cultures ; 123.
Temas:
1900-1999
Literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Écrits de femmes > Histoire et critique.
Littérature > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Postcolonialisme dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Women Authors.
Literature, Modern
Literature > Women authors
Postcolonialism in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • AFRICA
  • A State of Transition
  • Nothing Like Motherhood
  • Mourning and the Angel of History in Yvonne Veraâ€?s The Stone Virgins
  • Women Writing AIDS in South Africa and Zimbabwe
  • AMERICAS
  • Reclaiming Ritual
  • “There are no harmless ways to remake oneselfâ€?
  • ASIA
  • Mourning and Motherhood
  • Intimations of Metamodernism
  • “No one knows that I have magic / In my brainâ€?
  • AUSTRALIA
  • “A Ticket to Nowhereâ€?
  • Transitions
  • CROSS-CONTINENTAL
  • Muddy Death
  • Coming-of-Age, Coming to MourningMenstrual Metamorphosis and the “foreign country of femalenessâ€?
  • Words Against Death
  • Notes on Contributors

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