Stories of women: Gender and narrative in the postcolonial nation
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| spelling | Boehmer, Elleke Verfasser aut Stories of women Gender and narrative in the postcolonial nation Manchester Manchester University Press 2005 1 online resource (257 pages) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Print version record 9780719068782; 9780719068782; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Motherlands, mothers and nationalist sons: theorising the en-gendered nation; 2 'The master's dance to the master's voice':revolutionary nationalism and women's representation in Ngugi wa Thiong'o; 3 Of goddesses and stories: gender and a new politics in Achebe; 4 The hero's story: the male leader's autobiography and the syntax of postcolonial nationalism; 5 Stories of women and mothers: gender and nationalism in the early fiction of Flora Nwapa; 6 Daughters of the house: the adolescent girl and the nation 7 Transfiguring: colonial body into postcolonial narrative8 The nation as metaphor: Ben Okri, Chenjerai Hove, Dambudzo Marechera; 9 East is east: where postcolonialism is neo-orientalist -- the cases of Sarojini Naidu and Arundhati Roy; 10 Tropes of yearning and dissent: the inflection of desire in Yvonne Veraand Tsitsi Dangarembga; 11 Beside the west: postcolonial women writers in a transnational frame; 12 Conclusion: defining the nation differently; Select bibliography; Index Elleke Boehmer's work on the crucial intersections between independence, nationalism and gender has already proved canonical in the field. 'Stories of women' combines her keynote essays on the mother figure and the postcolonial nation, with incisive new work on male autobiography, 'daughter' writers, the colonial body, the trauma of the post-colony, and the nation in a transnational context. Focusing on Africa as well as South Asia, and sexuality as well as gender, Boehmer offers fine close readings of writers ranging from Achebe, Okri and Mandela to Arundhati Roy and Yvonne Vera, shaping thes BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary bisacsh English literature fast Nationalism in literature fast Postcolonialism in literature fast Sex role in literature fast English literature English-speaking countries History and criticism Sex role in literature Postcolonialism in literature Nationalism in literature Postkolonialismus (DE-588)4566658-1 gnd rswk-swf Englisch (DE-588)4014777-0 gnd rswk-swf Frauenliteratur (DE-588)4113622-6 gnd rswk-swf Subsaharisches Afrika (DE-588)4053770-5 gnd rswk-swf Südasien (DE-588)4058406-9 gnd rswk-swf 1\p (DE-588)4006804-3 Biografie gnd-content Südasien (DE-588)4058406-9 g Frauenliteratur (DE-588)4113622-6 s Postkolonialismus (DE-588)4566658-1 s Englisch (DE-588)4014777-0 s 2\p DE-604 Subsaharisches Afrika (DE-588)4053770-5 g 3\p DE-604 Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Boehmer, Elleke Stories of women : Gender and narrative in the postcolonial nation http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=514991 Aggregator Volltext 1\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk 2\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk 3\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk |
| spellingShingle | Boehmer, Elleke Stories of women Gender and narrative in the postcolonial nation 9780719068782; 9780719068782; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Motherlands, mothers and nationalist sons: theorising the en-gendered nation; 2 'The master's dance to the master's voice':revolutionary nationalism and women's representation in Ngugi wa Thiong'o; 3 Of goddesses and stories: gender and a new politics in Achebe; 4 The hero's story: the male leader's autobiography and the syntax of postcolonial nationalism; 5 Stories of women and mothers: gender and nationalism in the early fiction of Flora Nwapa; 6 Daughters of the house: the adolescent girl and the nation 7 Transfiguring: colonial body into postcolonial narrative8 The nation as metaphor: Ben Okri, Chenjerai Hove, Dambudzo Marechera; 9 East is east: where postcolonialism is neo-orientalist -- the cases of Sarojini Naidu and Arundhati Roy; 10 Tropes of yearning and dissent: the inflection of desire in Yvonne Veraand Tsitsi Dangarembga; 11 Beside the west: postcolonial women writers in a transnational frame; 12 Conclusion: defining the nation differently; Select bibliography; Index Elleke Boehmer's work on the crucial intersections between independence, nationalism and gender has already proved canonical in the field. 'Stories of women' combines her keynote essays on the mother figure and the postcolonial nation, with incisive new work on male autobiography, 'daughter' writers, the colonial body, the trauma of the post-colony, and the nation in a transnational context. Focusing on Africa as well as South Asia, and sexuality as well as gender, Boehmer offers fine close readings of writers ranging from Achebe, Okri and Mandela to Arundhati Roy and Yvonne Vera, shaping thes BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary bisacsh English literature fast Nationalism in literature fast Postcolonialism in literature fast Sex role in literature fast English literature English-speaking countries History and criticism Sex role in literature Postcolonialism in literature Nationalism in literature Postkolonialismus (DE-588)4566658-1 gnd Englisch (DE-588)4014777-0 gnd Frauenliteratur (DE-588)4113622-6 gnd |
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| topic | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary bisacsh English literature fast Nationalism in literature fast Postcolonialism in literature fast Sex role in literature fast English literature English-speaking countries History and criticism Sex role in literature Postcolonialism in literature Nationalism in literature Postkolonialismus (DE-588)4566658-1 gnd Englisch (DE-588)4014777-0 gnd Frauenliteratur (DE-588)4113622-6 gnd |
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