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Boehmer Elleke <1961-> |
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Stories of women : gender and narrative in the postcolonial nation / / Elleke Boehmer |
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Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2017 |
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©2005 |
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1-84779-606-0 |
1-5261-2596-X |
1-78170-189-X |
1-84779-272-3 |
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1 online resource (x, 239 pages) : digital file(s) |
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English literature - English-speaking countries - History and criticism |
Sex role in literature |
Postcolonialism in literature |
Nationalism in literature |
Literature |
Literature: History & Criticism |
LITERARY CRITICISM / General |
Literature: history & criticism |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction -- 1. Motherlands, mothers and nationalist sons: theorising the en-gendered nation -- 2. 'The master's dance to the master's voice': revolutionary nationalism and women's representation in Ngugi wa Thiong'o -- 3. Of goddesses and stories: gender and a new politics in Achebe -- 4. The hero's story: the male leader's autobiography and the syntax of postcolonial nationalism -- 5. Stories of women and mothers: gender and nationalism in the early fiction of Flora Nwapa -- 6. Daughters of the house: the adolescent girl and the nation -- 7. Transfiguring: colonial body into postcolonial narrative -- 8. The nation as metaphor: Ben Okri, Chenjerai Hove, Dambudzo |
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Marechera -- 9. East is east: where postcolonialism is neo-orientalist - the cases of Sarojini Naidu and Arundhati Roy -- 10. Tropes of yearning and dissent: the inflection of desire in Yvonne Veraand Tsitsi Dangarembga -- 11. Beside the west: postcolonial women writers in a transnational frame -- 12. Conclusion: defining the nation differently -- Select bibliography -- Index. |
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Elleke Boehmer's work on the crucial intersections between independence, nationalism and gender has already proved canonical in the field. 'Stories of women' combines her keynote essays on the mother figure and the postcolonial nation, with incisive new work on male autobiography, 'daughter' writers, the colonial body, the trauma of the post-colony, and the nation in a transnational context. Focusing on Africa as well as South Asia, and sexuality as well as gender, Boehmer offers fine close readings of writers ranging from Achebe, Okri and Mandela to Arundhati Roy and Yvonne Vera, shaping these into a critical engagement with theorists of the nation such as Fredric Jameson and Partha Chatterjee. Moving beyond cynical deconstructions of the post-colony, the book mounts a reassessment of the post-colonial nation as a site of potential empowerment, as a ‘paradoxical refuge’ in a globalised world. It acts on its own impassioned argument that post-colonial and nation-state studies address substantively issues hitherto raised chiefly within international feminism. |
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UNINA9910820841403321 |
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Autore |
Trotzke Andreas |
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Sprachevolution : Eine Einfuhrung / / Andreas Trotzke |
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Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2017 |
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©2017 |
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3-11-051579-2 |
3-11-051562-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (218 pages) : illustrations |
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Language and languages - Origin |
Biolinguistics |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Vorwort -- Inhalt -- 1. Sprachevolution: Reine Spekulation? -- 2. Die komparative Methode: Was unterscheidet uns vom Tier? -- 3. Sprachevolution und generative Linguistik -- 4. Sprachevolution und Experiment in biolinguistischer Perspektive -- 5. Sprachevolution und alternative Grammatikmodelle -- 6. Rekursion als allgemeine kognitive Strategie -- 7. Die Evolution der Kommunikationsfähigkeit -- 8. Sprachevolution ohne UG? -- 9. Rekursive Kognition und der qualitative Unterschied -- 10. Sprache und die Komplexität der menschlichen Kognition -- Literaturverzeichnis -- Index |
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Ein grundlegendes Erkenntnisinteresse der Sprachwissenschaft bestand schon immer darin, den evolutionären Ursprung der menschlichen Sprache zu erforschen. Dieses Studienbuch bietet eine Einführung in dieses neu auflebende Forschungsfeld, indem es die vielfältigen Forschungsansätze einordnet, gegenüberstellt sowie kritisch abwägt. Hierbei wird besonderer Wert auf die Darstellung der wachsenden Zusammenarbeit zwischen der Linguistik und der Verhaltens- sowie Neurobiologie gelegt. Das Buch bietet eine Orientierung, indem es die zahlreichen Ansätze zwei grundlegenden Positionen zuordnet. Zum einen formulieren Forscher die Hypothese, die Sprachfähigkeit stelle einen Unterscheid qualitativer Art dar. Zum anderen wird betont, die |
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menschliche Sprachfähigkeit zeichne sich gerade dadurch aus, dass sie in ihrer Komplexität in sehr kleinen graduellen Schritten entstanden sei und es daher keinen abrupten Bruch zu anderen Spezies gebe. Das Studienbuch diskutiert die sprachtheoretischen Grundlagen beider Positionen, zeigt Möglichkeiten der experimentellen Überprüfung auf und gibt kommentierte Bibliografien an die Hand. Obwohl sich das Thema der Sprachevolution großer Beliebtheit erfreut, fehlt bislang eine deutschsprachige Einführung. |
Understanding the evolutionary origins of language has always been a fundamental epistemological goal of linguistics. This textbook offers a concise introduction to this resurgent field of research. It organizes, compares, and critically evaluates different theories. The author places particular emphasis on the growing collaboration between linguistics, behavioral biology, and neurobiology. |
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