Confining Spaces, Resistant Subjectivities [electronic resource] : Toward a Metachronous Discourse of Literary Mapping and Transformation in Postcolonial Women's Writing.
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TextPublication details: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (231 p.)ISBN: - 9781443865531 (electronic bk.)
- 1443865532 (electronic bk.)
- English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
- Commonwealth literature (English) -- Women authors -- History and criticism
- Women -- Developing countries -- Intellectual life
- Feminism and literature -- Developing countries
- Postcolonialism in literature
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
- 809.89287
- PN98.W64
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Table of contents; preface; acknowledgements; chapter one; chapter two; chapter three; chapter four; chapter five; chapter six; chapter seven; chapter eight; chapter nine; works cited
This book represents a significant contribution to academic knowledge, making a compelling case for a contemporary analytical re-reading of a number of ""core"" postcolonial women's narratives, such as Erna Brodber's Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home, Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood, and Mariama Bâ's So Long a Letter. These narratives highlight diversity, contextuality, opposition, and metachrony, have a ""generative literary function"", and anticipate what have now become postcolonial ...