1. Bodies revisited? Representations of the embodied self in janet Frame's and Lauris Edmond's autobiographies / Valerie Baisnee -- 2. 'All my weapons within me' bodily archives in the Caribbean diaspora / Manuela Coppola -- 3. Restoring the real : rememorying the maternal body and recovery in Toni Morrison's 'Sula' and 'Beloved' / Wang Lei -- 4. The taming o fthe Creole : the (little) death of otherness in 'Wide Sargasso Sea' / Mariacristina Natalia Bertoli -- 5. Challening the tragic Mulatto stereotype in three 19th century African American texts / Silvia Pilar Castro-Borrego -- 6. Remapping the racialized body in Bharati Mukherjee's 'A Whide's Story' / Stefanovici Smaranda -- 7. Shaping female identities and bodies : the national vigilance association and the social purity movement / Maria Isabel Romero-Ruiz -- 8. From public body to corpse : the appropriation of the female body in Barker's 'Blow Your House Down' and Atkinson's 'One Good Turn' / Beatriz Dominguez-Garcia
Summary
Since the second half of the twentieth century, there has been a commitment on the part of women writers and scholars to revise and rewrite the history and culture of colonial and post-colonial women. This collection intends to enter a forum of discussion in which the colonial past serves as a point of reference for the analysis of contemporary issues. This volume will examine topics of women's identities and bodies through literary representations and historical accounts. In other words, th ..
