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Stories of women : gender and narrative in the postcolonial nation / / Elleke Boehmer
| Stories of women : gender and narrative in the postcolonial nation / / Elleke Boehmer |
| Autore | Boehmer Elleke <1961-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 239 pages) : digital file(s) |
| Disciplina | 809.93358 |
| Soggetto topico |
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 |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Literature
Gender Women Chinua Achebe India Nationalism Patriarchy Postcolonialism |
| ISBN |
1-84779-606-0
1-5261-2596-X 1-78170-189-X 1-84779-272-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 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 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910213856503321 |
Boehmer Elleke <1961->
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| Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2017 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Stories of women : gender and narrative in the postcolonial nation / / Elleke Boehmer
| Stories of women : gender and narrative in the postcolonial nation / / Elleke Boehmer |
| Autore | Boehmer Elleke <1961-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 239 pages) : digital file(s) |
| Disciplina | 809.93358 |
| Soggetto topico |
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 |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Literature
Gender Women Chinua Achebe India Nationalism Patriarchy Postcolonialism |
| ISBN |
1-84779-606-0
1-5261-2596-X 1-78170-189-X 1-84779-272-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 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 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996552370603316 |
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Boehmer Elleke <1961->
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| Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2017 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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