Rites of passage in postcolonial women's writing / / edited by Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo & Gina Wisker.
This volume brings a variety of new approaches and contexts to modern and contemporary women’s writing. Contributors include both new and well-established scholars from Europe, Australia, the USA, and the Caribbean. Their essays draw on, adapt, and challenge anthropological perspectives on rites of...
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| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cross/cultures,
123 Cross/Cultures 123. |
| Physical Description: | xvi, 307 p. |
| Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- A State of Transition: Connotations of Pregnancy in Yvonne Vera’s Without a Name and Butterfly Burning / Katrin Berndt
- Nothing Like Motherhood: Barrenness, Abortion, and Infanticide in Yvonne Vera’s Fiction / Helen Cousins
- Mourning and the Angel of History in Yvonne Vera’s The Stone Virgins / Alexandra W. Schultheis
- Women Writing AIDS in South Africa and Zimbabwe / Lizzy Attree
- Reclaiming Ritual: Feminist and Postcolonial Perspectives in Two Plays by Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl / Kimberly M. Jew
- “There are no harmless ways to remake oneself”: Re-Invention of Self in Bharati Mukherjee / Polina Mackay
- Mourning and Motherhood: Transforming Loss in Representations of Adivasi Mothers in Mahasweta Devi’s Short Stories / Lopamudra Basu
- Intimations of Metamodernism: Innocence and Experience in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things / Alexandra Dumitrescu
- “No one knows that I have magic / In my brain”: Jean Arasanayagam’s Writing and Re-writing as Rites of Passage / Sharanya Jayawickrama
- “A Ticket to Nowhere”: Coming-of-Age in Two Twentieth-Century Indigenous Australian Memoirs / Gay Breyley
- Transitions: Rites of Passage as Border Crossings in Contemporary Australian Women’s Fiction / Rachel Slater
- Fate, Femininity and Mourning in Jean Rhys’s Good Morning, Midnight / Jessica Gildersleeve
- Coming-of-Age, Coming to Mourning: Purple Hibiscus, Lucy, and Nervous Conditions / Tanya Dalziell
- Menstrual Metamorphosis and the “foreign country of femaleness”: Kate Grenville and Jamaica Kincaid / Anna Gething
- Words Against Death: Rites of Passage in Ana Castillo’s So Far From God and Patricia Grace’s Baby No-Eyes / Irene Visser
- Notes on Contributors.