LEADER 04153nam 2200661 450 001 9910452886303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a94-012-0955-3 024 7 $a10.1163/9789401209557 035 $a(CKB)2550000001118723 035 $a(EBL)1402877 035 $a(OCoLC)863202449$z(OCoLC)858764927 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001107807 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11622249 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001107807 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11086543 035 $a(PQKB)11688533 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1402877 035 $a(OCoLC)854556107$z(OCoLC)852388673$z(OCoLC)858076030$z(OCoLC)978208914 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789401209557 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1402877 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10764739 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL519196 035 $a(OCoLC)858764927 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001118723 100 $a20131009d2013 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTransgressing boundaries $egender, identity, culture, and the 'other' in postcolonial women's narratives in East Africa /$fElizabeth F. Oldfield 210 1$aAmsterdam :$cRodopi,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (278 p.) 225 1 $aCross/cultures : readings in post/colonial literatures and cultures in English ;$v164 300 $aBased on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Derby. 311 $a90-420-3697-4 311 $a1-299-87945-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPreliminary Material -- Agency, Voice, and Sense of Self: Re-Writing ?African? Women?s Identity -- Space and ?African? Women Writers -- Woman, the Visitor: Re-Presenting the Female Authorial Voice -- Delineating the Position of African Women -- Creative Dialogue, Signification, Gender, and Space: Talking through Contemporary Children?s Stories -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index. 330 $aFictions written between 1939 and 2005 by indigenous and white (post)colonial women writers emerging from an African?European cultural experience form the focus of this study. Their voyages into the European diasporic space in Africa are important for conveying how African women?s literature is situated in relation to colonialism. Notwithstanding the centrality of African literature in the new postcolonial literatures in English, the accomplishments of the indigenous writer Grace Ogot have been eclipsed by the critical attention given to her male counterparts, while Elspeth Huxley, Barbara Kimenye, and Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye, who are of Western cultural provenance but adopt an African perspective, are not accommodated by the genre of ?expatriate literature?. The present study of both indigenous and white (post)colonial women?s narratives that are common to both categories fills this gap. Focused on the representation of gender, identity, culture, and the ?Other?, the texts selected are set in Kenya and Uganda, and a main concern is with the extent to which they are influenced by setting and intercultural influences. The ?African? woman?s creation of textuality is at once the expression of female individualities and a transgression of boundaries. The particular category of fiction for children as written by Kimenye and Macgoye reveals the configuration of a voice and identity for the female ?Other? and writer which enables a subversive renegotiation of identity in the face of patriarchal traditions. 410 0$aCross/cultures ;$v164. 606 $aPostcolonialism in literature 606 $aWomen authors, African 606 $aAfrican fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPostcolonialism in literature. 615 0$aWomen authors, African. 615 0$aAfrican fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a809.9353 700 $aOldfield$b Elizabeth F$0879987 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452886303321 996 $aTransgressing boundaries$91965039 997 $aUNINA