1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459377203321

Autore

Kalisa Chantal

Titolo

Violence in Francophone African and Caribbean women's literature [[electronic resource] /] / Chantal Kalisa

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, 2009

ISBN

1-282-42395-9

9786612423956

0-8032-2688-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (236 p.)

Disciplina

840.9/9287

Soggetti

African literature (French) - Women authors - History and criticism

Caribbean literature (French) - Women authors - History and criticism

Violence in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Title page; Copyright page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Geographies of Pain; 1. Exclusion as Violence: Frantz Fanon, Black Women, and Colonial Violence; 2. Representing Colonial Violence: Michèle Lacrosil's Cajou, Ken Bugul's Le baobab fou, and Ousmane Sembène's La noire de . . .; 3. Writing Familial Violence: Storytelling and Intergenerational Violence in Simone Schwarz-Bart'sPluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle and Calixthe Beyala's Tu t' appelleras Tanga

4. Sites of Violence: Language, the Body, and Women's Deterritorialization in Gisèle Pineau's L'espérance-macadam and Calixthe Beyala's C'est le soleil qui m'a brûlée5. War and Political Violence: Nadine Bari's, Edwidge Danticat's, and Monique Ilboudo's Literary Responses to Gender and Conflict; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Chantal Kalisa examines the ways in which women writers lift taboos imposed on them by their society and culture and challenge readers with their unique perspectives on violence. Comparing women from different places and times, Kalisa treats types of violence such as



colonial, familial, linguistic, and war-related, specifically linked to dictatorship and genocide. She examines Caribbean writers Michele Lacrosil, Simone Schwartz-Bart, Gisèle Pineau, and Edwidge Danticat, and Africans Ken Begul, Calixthe Beyala, Nadine Bar, and Monique Ilboudo. She also includes Sembène Ousmane and Frantz Fanon

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996475755403316

Autore

Pérez Vidal Mercedes

Titolo

Women Religious Crossing between Cloister and the World : A Transatlantic Dialogue / / Mercedes Perez Vidal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Arc Humanities Press, 2022

Arc Humanities Press, 2022

Leeds

ISBN

1-64189-299-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (212 p.)

Collana

Spirituality and Monasticism, East and West

Altri autori (Persone)

Perez VidalMercedes

Disciplina

271.90009

Soggetti

Monastic and religious life of women - America - History - 16th century

Monastic and religious life of women - America - History - 17th century

Monastic and religious life of women - America - History - Middle Ages, 600-1500

Monastic and religious life of women - Europe - History - 16th century

Monastic and religious life of women - Europe - History - 17th century

Monastic and religious life of women - Europe - History - Middle Ages, 600-1500

RELIGION / Christianity / History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents a comparative approach to the role of women in religious and monastic life in Europe and the Americas during the medieval and early modern periods. The contributors inquire into



differences and similarities, continuities and discontinuities of women?s agency inside and outside the convent. The volume challenges traditional chronological and regional limitations such as those between the Middle Ages and the Modern era and stresses the transatlantic exchange of models between Europe and the Americas.