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Autore |
Mwangi Evan |
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Titolo |
Africa writes back to self [[electronic resource] ] : metafiction, gender, sexuality / / Evan Maina Mwangi |
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Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-4384-2697-6 |
1-4416-2054-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (363 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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African fiction (English) - History and criticism |
Self in literature |
Self-perception in literature |
Sex role in literature |
Sex in literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction : Writing Back to Self -- Genealogies and Functions of Self-Reflexive Fiction -- (En)countering Sex in the Nationalist Canon -- Potentials and Pitfalls of National Language Literatures -- Orature and Deconstructed Folklore -- Politicized Palimpsests and Gendered Intertexts --Painted Metaphors : The Gendered Deployment of Visual Arts -- Refiguring (Out) Queer Sexualities -- Gendered Theoretical Recalibrations. |
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