Postcolonial Representations : : Women, Literature, Identity / / Françoise Lionnet.
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 p...
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©1995 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Reading Women Writing
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Works
- Introduction. Logiques metisses: Cultural Appropriation and Postcolonial Representations
- 1. Of Mangoes and Maroons: Language, History, and the Multicultural Subject of Michelle Cliff’s Abeng
- 2. Evading The Subject: Narration and the City in Ananda Devi’s Rue La Poudriere
- 3. Toward a New Antillean Humanism: Maryse Conde’s Traversee de la mangrove
- 4. Inscriptions of Exile: The Body’s Knowledge and the Myth of Authenticity in Myriam Warner-Vieyra and Suzanne Dracius-Pinalie
- 5. Geographies of Pain: Captive Bodies and Violent Acts in Myriam Wamer-Vieyra, Gayl Jones, and Bessie Head
- 6. Dissymmetry Embodied: Nawal El Saadawi’ s Woman at Point Zero and the Practice of Excision
- 7. The Limits of Universalism: Identity, Sexuality, and Criminality
- 8. Narrative Journeys: The Reconstruction of Histories in Leila Sebbar’s Les Carnets de Shérazade
- Conclusion. Whither Feminist Criticism?
- Index