Description |
xxv, 289 pages ; 25 cm |
Series |
Contributions in women's studies, 0147-104X ; 147 |
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Contributions in women's studies ; no. 147
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Contents |
Introduction. Placing identity in cross-cultural perspective (Anne E. Brown and Marjanne E. Goozé) -- Part I. Mapping Identity: Female self-definition and the African community in Mariama Bâ's epistolary novel So Long a Letter (Eva Rueschmann); (Re)presenting the self: identity and consciousness in the feature films of Safi Faye (Sheila J. Petty); Sappho's daughters: lesbian identities in novels by Québécois women (1960-1990) (Anne E. Brown); Finding a place for Christa Wolf: gendered identity in No Place on Earth (Marjanne E. Goozé) -- Part II. Disrupting the Autonomous Self: Maryse Condé's Hérémakhonon: a triangular structure of alienation (Arlette M. Smith); Colonial discourse and female identity: Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine (Suzanne Kehde); Fragmented identities and the process of metamorphosis in works by Lygia Fagundes Telles (Peggy Sharpe); The "imaginative space" of Medbh McGuckian (Susan Porter); Writing the woman-subject: Marguerite Duras, from theory to fiction (Anne-Marie Gronhovd) |
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Part III.Inner and Outer Space: The mysterious space of exile: Punishable Songs by Judigh Grossmann (Susan Canty Quinlan); Inner and outer space in the works of Esther Rochon (Annick Chapdelaine); Southern Africa and the theme of madness: novels by Doris Lessing, Bessie Head, and Nadine Gordimer (Nancy Topping Bazin); Dismantling the master's houses: Jean Rhys and West Indian identity (Fiona R. Barnes); Wild child, tropical flower, mad wife: female identity in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea (Deanna Madden) -- Part IV. Resisting Oppressions: Isabel Allende and the discourse of exile (Marketta Laurila); Too disconnected/Too bound up: the paradox of identity in Mercè Rodoreda's The Time of the Doves (Kayann Short); Scientist and mother; Portrait of the heroine in I. Grekova's fiction (Margareta Thompson); Italian women in search of identity in Dacia Maraini's novels (Vera F. Golini) |
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Part V. Intercultural Space: Naming the unspeakable: the mapping of female identity in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior (Marlene Goldman); Born of a stranger: mother-daughter relationships and storytelling in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club (Gloria Shen); The ambivalence of mirroring and female bonding in Paule Marshall's Brown Girl, Brownstones (Laura Niesen de Abruña); No place for identity: Jeannette Lander's migrating women's aesthetic (Tobe Levin); Expatriate Afro-American women as exotics (Marilyn Elkins) |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Feminist literary criticism.
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Identity (Psychology) in literature.
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Literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Women and literature.
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Author |
Brown, Anne E.
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Goozé, Marjanne Elaine.
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LC no. |
94027950 |
ISBN |
0313290458 (alk. paper) |
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