Post-colonial Women Writers
Author | : Sunita Sinha |
Publisher | : Atlantic Publishers & Dist |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9788126909858 |
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Author | : Sunita Sinha |
Publisher | : Atlantic Publishers & Dist |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9788126909858 |
Author | : Gina Wisker |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2017-03-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0333985249 |
This accessible and unusually wide-ranging book is essential reading for anyone interested in postcolonial and African American women's writing. It provides a valuable gender and culture inflected critical introduction to well established women writers: Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Margaret Atwood, Suniti Namjoshi, Bessie Head, and others from the U.S.A., India, Africa, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and introduces emergent writers from South East Asia, Cyprus and Oceania. Engaging with and clarifying contested critical areas of feminism and the postcolonial; exploring historical background and cultural context, economic, political, and psychoanalytic influences on gendered experience, it provides a cohesive discussion of key issues such as cultural and gendered identity, motherhood, mothertongue, language, relationships, women's economic constraints and sexual politics.
Author | : Ketu Katrak |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2006-02-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0813539307 |
Is it possible to simultaneously belong to and be exiled from a community? In Politics of the Female Body, Ketu H. Katrak argues that it is not only possible, but common, especially for women who have been subjects of colonial empires. Through her careful analysis of postcolonial literary texts, Katrak uncovers the ways that the female body becomes a site of both oppression and resistance. She examines writers working in the English language, including Anita Desai from India, Ama Ata Aidoo from Ghana, and Merle Hodge from Trinidad, among others. The writers share colonial histories, a sense of solidarity, and resistance strategies in the on-going struggles of decolonization that center on the body. Bringing together a rich selection of primary texts, Katrak examines published novels, poems, stories, and essays, as well as activist materials, oral histories, and pamphlets—forms that push against the boundaries of what is considered strictly literary. In these varied materials, she reveals common political and feminist alliances across geographic boundaries. A unique comparative look at women’s literary work and its relationship to the body in third world societies, this text will be of interest to literary scholars and to those working in the fields of postcolonial studies and women’s studies.
Author | : Ketu H. Katrak |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0813537150 |
Is it possible to simultaneously belong to and be exiled from a community? Arguing that it is possible, the author uncovers the ways that the female body becomes a site of both oppression and resistance. She reveals common political and feminist alliances across geographic boundaries.
Author | : Elleke Boehmer |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2005-09-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780719068782 |
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.
Author | : Kirsten Holst Petersen |
Publisher | : Mundelstrup, Denmark : Dangaroo Press |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : African literature (English) |
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Author | : Mary Jean Matthews Green |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : French literature |
ISBN | : 9781452901077 |
Author | : Martin Japtok |
Publisher | : Africa World Press |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : African American women |
ISBN | : 9781592210688 |
Combining postcolonial perspectives with race and culture based studies, which have merged the fields of African and black American studies, this volume concentrates on women writers, exploring how the (post) colonial condition is reflected in women's literature. The essays are united by their focus on attempts to create alternative value systems through the rewriting of history or the reclassification of the woman's position in society. By examining such strategies these essays illuminate the diversity and coherence of the postcolonial project.
Author | : Sandra Ponzanesi |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0791484513 |
This innovative contribution to understanding the promise and contradictions of contemporary postcolonial culture applies a wide array of theoretical tools to a large body of literature. The author compares the work of established Indian writers including Bharati Mukherjee, Meena Alexander, Sara Suleri, and Sunetra Gupta to new writings by such Afro-Italian immigrant women as Ermina dell'Oro, Maria Abbebù Viarengo, Ribka Sibhatu, and Sirad Hassan. Sandra Ponzanesi's analysis highlights a set of dissymmetrical relationships that are set in the context of different imperial, linguistic, and market policies. By dealing with issues of representation linked to postcolonial literary genres, to gender and ethnicity questions, and to new cartographies of diaspora, this book imbues the postcolonial debate with a new élan.
Author | : Alison Blunt |
Publisher | : Guilford Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1994-08-19 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780898624984 |
Drawing lessons from the complex and often contradictory position of white women writing in the colonial period, This unique book explores how feminism and poststructuralism can bring new types of understanding to the production of geographical knowledge. Through a series of colonial and postcolonial case studies, essays address the ways in which white women have written and mapped different geographies, in both the late nineteenth century and today, illustrating the diverse objects (landscapes, spaces, views), the variety of media (letters, travel writing, paintings, sculpture, cartographic maps, political discourse), and the different understandings and representations of people and place.