Africa writes back to self [[electronic resource] ] : metafiction, gender, sexuality / / Evan Maina Mwangi |
Autore | Mwangi Evan |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (363 p.) |
Disciplina | 823/.91409353 |
Soggetto topico |
African fiction (English) - History and criticism
Self in literature Self-perception in literature Sex role in literature Sex in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-4384-2697-6
1-4416-2054-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455386603321 |
Mwangi Evan | ||
Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Africa writes back to self [[electronic resource] ] : metafiction, gender, sexuality / / Evan Maina Mwangi |
Autore | Mwangi Evan |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (363 p.) |
Disciplina | 823/.91409353 |
Soggetto topico |
African fiction (English) - History and criticism
Self in literature Self-perception in literature Sex role in literature Sex in literature |
ISBN |
1-4384-2697-6
1-4416-2054-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778138903321 |
Mwangi Evan | ||
Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Africa writes back to self : metafiction, gender, sexuality / / Evan Maina Mwangi |
Autore | Mwangi Evan |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (363 p.) |
Disciplina | 823/.91409353 |
Soggetto topico |
African fiction (English) - History and criticism
Self in literature Self-perception in literature Sex role in literature Sex in literature |
ISBN |
1-4384-2697-6
1-4416-2054-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808483103321 |
Mwangi Evan | ||
Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Embodied shame : uncovering female shame in contemporary women's writings / / J. Brooks Bouson |
Autore | Bouson J. Brooks |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Albany, : SUNY Press, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (239 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/3522 |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - Women authors - History and criticism
Canadian literature - Women authors - History and criticism English literature - Women authors - History and criticism Women in literature Shame in literature Abused women in literature Psychic trauma in literature Body image in literature Self-perception in literature Body image in women Self-perception in women |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-4384-2739-5
1-4416-2266-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454894403321 |
Bouson J. Brooks | ||
Albany, : SUNY Press, c2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Embodied shame : uncovering female shame in contemporary women's writings / / J. Brooks Bouson |
Autore | Bouson J. Brooks |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Albany, : SUNY Press, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (239 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/3522 |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - Women authors - History and criticism
Canadian literature - Women authors - History and criticism English literature - Women authors - History and criticism Women in literature Shame in literature Abused women in literature Psychic trauma in literature Body image in literature Self-perception in literature Body image in women Self-perception in women |
ISBN |
1-4384-2739-5
1-4416-2266-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The humiliations of the female flesh in Alice Munro's lives of girls and women -- Family violence, incest, and white-trash shame in Dorothy Allison's Bastard out of Carolina -- Racial self-loathing and the color complex in Toni Morrison's The Bluest eye and Marita Golden's Don't play in the sun -- Sexual shame, family honor, and the mother-daughter relationship in Edwidge Danticat's Breath, eyes, memory -- Coming of age in a culture of shame in Naomi Wolf's Promiscuities -- Feeling fat, fearing fat in Jenefer Shute's life-size and Judith Moore's Fat girl: a true story -- The culture of appearances and the socially invisible and unattractive woman in Anita Brookner's Look at me, Doris Lessing's The summer before the dark, and Fay Weldon's The life and loves of a she-devil -- Gerontophobia and the cultural shaming of the elderly woman in May Sarton's As we are now and Margaret Laurence's The stone angel -- Writing the disfigured and disabled body-self in Lucy Grealy's Autobiography of a face and Nancy Mairs's Plaintext, Carnal acts, and Waist-high in the world. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778327503321 |
Bouson J. Brooks | ||
Albany, : SUNY Press, c2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Embodied shame : uncovering female shame in contemporary women's writings / / J. Brooks Bouson |
Autore | Bouson J. Brooks |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Albany, : SUNY Press, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (239 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/3522 |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - Women authors - History and criticism
Canadian literature - Women authors - History and criticism English literature - Women authors - History and criticism Women in literature Shame in literature Abused women in literature Psychic trauma in literature Body image in literature Self-perception in literature Body image in women Self-perception in women |
ISBN |
1-4384-2739-5
1-4416-2266-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The humiliations of the female flesh in Alice Munro's lives of girls and women -- Family violence, incest, and white-trash shame in Dorothy Allison's Bastard out of Carolina -- Racial self-loathing and the color complex in Toni Morrison's The Bluest eye and Marita Golden's Don't play in the sun -- Sexual shame, family honor, and the mother-daughter relationship in Edwidge Danticat's Breath, eyes, memory -- Coming of age in a culture of shame in Naomi Wolf's Promiscuities -- Feeling fat, fearing fat in Jenefer Shute's life-size and Judith Moore's Fat girl: a true story -- The culture of appearances and the socially invisible and unattractive woman in Anita Brookner's Look at me, Doris Lessing's The summer before the dark, and Fay Weldon's The life and loves of a she-devil -- Gerontophobia and the cultural shaming of the elderly woman in May Sarton's As we are now and Margaret Laurence's The stone angel -- Writing the disfigured and disabled body-self in Lucy Grealy's Autobiography of a face and Nancy Mairs's Plaintext, Carnal acts, and Waist-high in the world. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910827314403321 |
Bouson J. Brooks | ||
Albany, : SUNY Press, c2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Locating the Anglo-Indian self in Ruskin Bond : a postcolonial review / / Debashis Bandyopadhyay [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Bandyopadhyay Debashis |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Anthem Press, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (160 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 823/.914 |
Collana | Anthem South Asian Studies |
Soggetto topico |
Anglo-Indian literature - History and criticism
Self-perception in literature |
ISBN |
1-283-37723-3
9786613377234 0-85728-943-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Reading 'self' in a semi-autobiographical author -- Sense of exile: an Anglo-Indian context -- Text versus context: space and time in the room on the roof and vagrants in the valley -- Quest for an authentic literary grain: two versions of 'The eyes are not here' -- Conscious/unconscious dialectic: stories of the mid-career -- Invoking history to resist drives: tension revisited in a flight of pigeons -- Self in abject space: 'The playing fields of Shimla' -- Self in liminal space. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910460095603321 |
Bandyopadhyay Debashis | ||
London : , : Anthem Press, , 2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Macho ethics : masculinity and self-representation in Latino-Caribbean narrative / / Jason Cortés |
Autore | Cortés Jason |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland : , : Bucknell University Press, , [2015] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (161 p.) |
Disciplina | 860.9/9729 |
Collana | Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - Caribbean American authors - History and criticism
American literature - West Indian American authors - History and criticism Masculinity in literature Self-perception in literature Caribbean Americans - Intellectual life West Indian Americans - Intellectual life |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-61148-639-4
1-61148-638-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: Macho ethics: authority matters -- Eerie feelings: spectral authority -- The Sarduyan paradox -- The sentimental education -- No home-run hitter or fly bachatero. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910463406003321 |
Cortés Jason | ||
Lanham, Maryland : , : Bucknell University Press, , [2015] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Macho ethics : masculinity and self-representation in Latino-Caribbean narrative / / Jason Cortés |
Autore | Cortés Jason |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland : , : Bucknell University Press, , [2015] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (161 p.) |
Disciplina | 860.9/9729 |
Collana | Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - Caribbean American authors - History and criticism
American literature - West Indian American authors - History and criticism Masculinity in literature Self-perception in literature Caribbean Americans - Intellectual life West Indian Americans - Intellectual life |
ISBN |
1-61148-639-4
1-61148-638-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: Macho ethics: authority matters -- Eerie feelings: spectral authority -- The Sarduyan paradox -- The sentimental education -- No home-run hitter or fly bachatero. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788047503321 |
Cortés Jason | ||
Lanham, Maryland : , : Bucknell University Press, , [2015] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Macho ethics : masculinity and self-representation in Latino-Caribbean narrative / / Jason Cortés |
Autore | Cortés Jason |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland : , : Bucknell University Press, , [2015] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (161 p.) |
Disciplina | 860.9/9729 |
Collana | Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - Caribbean American authors - History and criticism
American literature - West Indian American authors - History and criticism Masculinity in literature Self-perception in literature Caribbean Americans - Intellectual life West Indian Americans - Intellectual life |
ISBN |
1-61148-639-4
1-61148-638-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: Macho ethics: authority matters -- Eerie feelings: spectral authority -- The Sarduyan paradox -- The sentimental education -- No home-run hitter or fly bachatero. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818575803321 |
Cortés Jason | ||
Lanham, Maryland : , : Bucknell University Press, , [2015] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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