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1 online resource (255 p.) |
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Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment Ser |
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Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction. Women and Water -- Mapping a Fluid Terrain -- Part One Mythologies and Spiritualities of Water -- 1 The Atlantis Effect: Aquatic Invocations and the (Re)Claiming of Women's Space in the Works and Archives of Gloria Anzaldúa, tatiana de la tierra, and Lydia Cabrera -- 2 Connecting Women Through Water: Nalo Hopkinson's The Salt Roads (2003) as Matrifocal Speculative Fiction |
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3 Grottoes and Mermaids: Fairy Tales and Transformations in Marie Nimier's Sirène (1985) and La Plage (2016) -- 4 "Water, Water, Everywhere, and Not a Drop to Drink": Spiritual Renewal Through Destruction in Jewell Parker Rhodes's Hurricane (2011) -- Part Two Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans -- 5 Of Deserts and Oceans: Spaces of Womanhood in the Work of Malika Mokeddem -- 6 Re-writing the Colonial River: Fabienne Bayet-Charlton's Watershed (2005) and Murray River Narratives -- 7 Ko wai koe? Identity and Water in Contemporary Women's Writing From Aotearoa New Zealand |
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8 Time and Tide: Topographies of Trauma in Jhumpa Lahiri's The Lowland (2013) -- 9 Watery Subjectivities: Exploring Female Somali Diasporic Experiences of the Sea in Cristina Ali Farah's Little Mother (2011) and "A Dhow Is Crossing the Sea" (2011) -- Part Three Metaphors of Liquidity -- 10 Flowing Along Endlessly: Banana Yoshimoto's Female Protagonists and Water's Guiding Force -- 11 Women, Water, and the House Built on Sand: Tropes of Liquidity in the Feminist Latin American Dictatorship Novel -- Cristina Peri Rossi's The Ship of Fools (1984) and Diamela Eltit's The Fourth World (1988) |
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12 Water Metaphors as Communication Structures in Astrid H. Roemer's Was getekend (Was Marked) (1998) -- Index |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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Women in literature
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Water in literature
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Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000621464 |
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1000621464 |
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