Postcolonial Representations
Women, Literature, Identity
1st Edition
Published on 5. July 2018
208 pages
978-1-5017-2454-1 (ISBN)
Description
Discussing a variety of postcolonial narratives written by women, Lionnet offers a comparative feminist approach that can provide common ground for debates on such issues as multiculturalism, universalism, and relativism.
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Language
English
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NY
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-1-5017-2454-1 (9781501724541)
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Françoise Lionnet is Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She is the author of Postcolonial Representations: Women, Literature, Identity, also from Cornell University Press.
Françoise Lionnet is Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She is the author of Postcolonial Representations: Women, Literature, Identity, also from Cornell University Press.
Content
- Cover
- Postcolonial Representations
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Works
- Introduction Logiques métisses: Cultural Appropriation and Postcolonial Representations
- 1. Of Mangoes and Maroons: Language, History, and the Multicultural Subject of Michelle Cliff's Abeng
- 2. Evading the Subject: Narration and the City in Ananda Devi' s Rue La Poudrière
- 3· Toward a New Antillean Humanism: Maryse Condé's Traversée de la mangrove
- 4· Inscriptions of Exile: The Body's Knowledge and the Myth of Authenticity in Myriam Warner-Vieyra and Suzanne Dracius-Pinalie
- 5· Geographies of Pain: Captive Bodies and Violent Acts in Myriam Warner-Vieyra, Gayl Jones, and Bessie Head
- 6. Dissymmetry Embodied: Nawal El Saadawi's Woman at Point Zero and the Practice of Excision
- 7· The Limits of Universalism: Identity, Sexuality, and Criminality
- 8. Narrative Journeys: the Reconstruction of Histories in Leïla Sebbar's Les Carnets de Shérazade
- Conclusion Whither Feminist Criticism?
- Index
