Title Confining Spaces, Resistant Subjectivities : Toward a Metachronous Discourse of Literary Mapping and Transformation in Postcolonial Women's Writing

Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (231 pages) Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; WORKS CITED Summary This book represents a significant contribution to academic knowledge, making a compelling case for a contemporary analytical re-reading of a number of ""core"" postcolonial women's narratives, such as Erna Brodber's Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home, Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood, and Mariama Bâ's So Long a Letter. These narratives highlight diversity, contextuality, opposition, and metachrony, have a ""generative literary function"", and anticipate what have now become postcolonial .. Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-223) Notes English Print version record Subject English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism Commonwealth literature (English) -- Women authors -- History and criticism Women -- Developing countries -- Intellectual life Feminism and literature -- Developing countries Postcolonialism in literature. Literature & literary studies. Literary studies: post-colonial literature. Feminism & feminist theory. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary. Commonwealth literature (English) -- Women authors English literature -- Women authors Feminism and literature Postcolonialism in literature Women -- Intellectual life Developing countries Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781443865531 1443865532 1322056846 9781322056845 1443859850 9781443859851

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