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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.
Table of Contents
PART ONE: AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN'S WRITING
African American Women's Writing
Toni Morrison
Alice Walker
PART TWO: WRITING BY WOMEN FROM POSTCOLONIAL CONTEXTS
Caribbean Women's Writing
African Women's Writing
Writing by Women from South Africa
Writing by Women from the Indian Sub-Continent
Australian Women's Writing
Writing by Women from Aotearoa (New Zealand)
Canadian Women's Writing
Black British Women's Writing
PART THREE: EMERGENT WOMEN'S WRITING
South East Asian Women's Writing
Writing by Women from Oceania the Pacific Rim
Writing by Women from Cyprus
Notes
Index.
Product details
| Published | 19 Sep 2000 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 376 |
| ISBN | 9780333727454 |
| Imprint | Red Globe Press |
| Dimensions | Not specified |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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