Transgressing Boundaries Gender, Identity, Culture, and the 'Other' in Postcolonial Women's Narratives in East Africa
Fictions 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...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Editions Rodopi
2013.
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| Colección: | Cross/Cultures - Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b29229121*spi |
| Sumario: | Fictions 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 Kim. |
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| Notas: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Descripción Física: | 278 p. |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9789401209557 |
