Transgressing boundaries. : gender, identity, culture, and the 'other' in postcolonial women's.
Fictions written between 1939 and 2005 by indigenous and white (post)colonial women writers emerging from an African-European cultural experience form the focus of this study. Their voyages into the European diasporic space in Africa are important for conveying how African women's literature is...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Editions Rodopi B V,
2013.
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Series: | Cross/Cultures - Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English.
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Online Access: | Available via EBSCO eBook Collection |
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Summary: | Fictions written between 1939 and 2005 by indigenous and white (post)colonial women writers emerging from an African-European cultural experience form the focus of this study. Their voyages into the European diasporic space in Africa are important for conveying how African women's literature is situated in relation to colonialism. Notwithstanding the centrality of African literature in the new postcolonial literatures in English, the accomplishments of the indigenous writer Grace Ogot have been eclipsed by the critical attention given to her male counterparts, while Elspeth Huxley, Barbara Kim. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
ISBN: | 9401209553 9789401209557 9042036974 9789042036970 |