Elleke Boehmer

Stories of women

Gender and narrative in the postcolonial nation

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Produktbeschreibung

Why is the nation in a postcolonial world so often seen as a motherland? Stories of women is a pathbreaking study of the perenially fascinating relationship between foundational fictions of the nation and gendered images. The book focuses critically on postcolonial spaces ranging from West Africa to India.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 389g
• ISBN-13: 9780719068799
• ISBN-10: 0719068797
• Artikelnr.: 26250150

Autorenporträt

Elleke Boehmer is Hildred Carlile Professor in English at Royal Holloway, University of London

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Theorising the en-gendered nation:
Motherlands, mothers and nationalist sons 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 Vera and Tsitsi
Dangarembga 11. Beside the West: postcolonial women writers in a
transnational frame 12. Conclusion: Defining the nation differently