Postcolonial Representations : : Women, Literature, Identity /

Postcolonial Representations : : Women, Literature, Identity / / Françoise Lionnet.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Lionnet, Françoise,
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

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