Stories of women: gender and narrative in the postcolonial nation
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1. Verfasser: Boehmer, Elleke 1961- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Manchester Manchester University Press 2005
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Beschreibung:This text combines Boehmer's 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
Includes bibliographical references and index
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
Beschreibung:x, 239 p.
ISBN:9781781701898
178170189X
1847792723
9781847792723
0719068789
9780719068782

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