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Book Synopsis Post-Colonial and African American Women's Writing by : Gina Wisker
Download or read book Post-Colonial and African American Women's Writing written by Gina Wisker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-04 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accessible and unusually wide-ranging book is essential reading for anyone interested in postcolonial and African American women's writing. It provides a valuable gender and culture inflected critical introduction to well established women writers: Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Margaret Atwood, Suniti Namjoshi, Bessie Head, and others from the U.S.A., India, Africa, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and introduces emergent writers from South East Asia, Cyprus and Oceania. Engaging with and clarifying contested critical areas of feminism and the postcolonial; exploring historical background and cultural context, economic, political, and psychoanalytic influences on gendered experience, it provides a cohesive discussion of key issues such as cultural and gendered identity, motherhood, mothertongue, language, relationships, women's economic constraints and sexual politics.
Book Synopsis A History of Feminist Literary Criticism by : Gill Plain
Download or read book A History of Feminist Literary Criticism written by Gill Plain and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-08-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feminism has transformed the academic study of literature, fundamentally altering the canon of what is taught and setting new agendas for literary analysis. In this authoritative history of feminist literary criticism, leading scholars chart the development of the practice from the Middle Ages to the present. The first section of the book explores protofeminist thought from the Middle Ages onwards, and analyses the work of pioneers such as Wollstonecraft and Woolf. The second section examines the rise of second-wave feminism and maps its interventions across the twentieth century. A final section examines the impact of postmodernism on feminist thought and practice. This book offers a comprehensive guide to the history and development of feminist literary criticism and a lively reassessment of the main issues and authors in the field. It is essential reading for all students and scholars of feminist writing and literary criticism.
Book Synopsis The Politics of the Female Body by : Ketu Katrak
Download or read book The Politics of the Female Body written by Ketu Katrak and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2006-02-15 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it possible to simultaneously belong to and be exiled from a community? In Politics of the Female Body, Ketu H. Katrak argues that it is not only possible, but common, especially for women who have been subjects of colonial empires. Through her careful analysis of postcolonial literary texts, Katrak uncovers the ways that the female body becomes a site of both oppression and resistance. She examines writers working in the English language, including Anita Desai from India, Ama Ata Aidoo from Ghana, and Merle Hodge from Trinidad, among others. The writers share colonial histories, a sense of solidarity, and resistance strategies in the on-going struggles of decolonization that center on the body. Bringing together a rich selection of primary texts, Katrak examines published novels, poems, stories, and essays, as well as activist materials, oral histories, and pamphlets—forms that push against the boundaries of what is considered strictly literary. In these varied materials, she reveals common political and feminist alliances across geographic boundaries. A unique comparative look at women’s literary work and its relationship to the body in third world societies, this text will be of interest to literary scholars and to those working in the fields of postcolonial studies and women’s studies.
Book Synopsis Feminist Postcolonial Theory by : Reina Lewis
Download or read book Feminist Postcolonial Theory written by Reina Lewis and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2003 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Book Synopsis Recasting Postcolonialism by : Anne Donadey
Download or read book Recasting Postcolonialism written by Anne Donadey and published by Studies in African Literature. This book was released on 2001 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes works of Assia Djebar and Leila Sebbar in context of postcolonial theory and French-Algerian history, literature and visual arts.
Book Synopsis Writing Women and Space by : Alison Blunt
Download or read book Writing Women and Space written by Alison Blunt and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 1994-08-19 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing lessons from the complex and often contradictory position of white women writing in the colonial period, This unique book explores how feminism and poststructuralism can bring new types of understanding to the production of geographical knowledge. Through a series of colonial and postcolonial case studies, essays address the ways in which white women have written and mapped different geographies, in both the late nineteenth century and today, illustrating the diverse objects (landscapes, spaces, views), the variety of media (letters, travel writing, paintings, sculpture, cartographic maps, political discourse), and the different understandings and representations of people and place.
Book Synopsis Post-colonial Women Writers by : Sunita Sinha
Download or read book Post-colonial Women Writers written by Sunita Sinha and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 2008 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Literary Madness in British, Postcolonial, and Bedouin Women's Writing by : Shahd Alshammari
Download or read book Literary Madness in British, Postcolonial, and Bedouin Women's Writing written by Shahd Alshammari and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers the ways in which madness has been portrayed in writing by women writers. It readdresses the madwoman trope, opening up multiple sites of literary madness, examining places and spaces outside of the ‘madwoman in the attic.’ In particular, a transnational approach sets itself up against a Eurocentric approach to literary madness. Women novelists from the Brontës to the Indian writer Arundhati Roy and Arab writers Fadia Faqir and Miral al-Tahawy interrogate patriarchal societies and oppressive cultures. Female characters who suffer from madness are strikingly similar in their revolutionary subversion of patriarchal environments.
Author :Mine Sevinc Publisher :Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften ISBN 13 :9783631861233 Total Pages :162 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (612 download)
Book Synopsis Postcolonial Feminine Writing by : Mine Sevinc
Download or read book Postcolonial Feminine Writing written by Mine Sevinc and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 2021-11-25 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary women authors appropriate Shahrazad's figure in their fictions in terms of themes and structure. This constitutes a novel concept, postcolonial feminine writing, which draws on Helene Cixous's and Frantz Fanon's theories.
Book Synopsis Stories of women by : Elleke Boehmer
Download or read book Stories of women written by Elleke Boehmer and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Elleke Boehmer's work on the crucial intersections between independence, nationalism and gender has already proved canonical in the field. 'Stories of women' combines her keynote essays on the mother figure and the postcolonial nation, with incisive new work on male autobiography, 'daughter' writers, the colonial body, the trauma of the post-colony, and the nation in a transnational context. Focusing on Africa as well as South Asia, and sexuality as well as gender, Boehmer offers fine close readings of writers ranging from Achebe, Okri and Mandela to Arundhati Roy and Yvonne Vera, shaping these into a critical engagement with theorists of the nation like Fredric Jameson and Partha Chatterjee. This edition will be of interest to readers and researchers of postcolonial, international and women's writing; of nation theory, colonial history and historiography; of Indian, African, migrant and diasporic literatures, and is likely to prove a landmark study in the field.
Book Synopsis Palestinian Literature and Film in Postcolonial Feminist Perspective by : Anna Ball
Download or read book Palestinian Literature and Film in Postcolonial Feminist Perspective written by Anna Ball and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the varied forms of gender politics that have surfaced in Palestinian literature and film since 1948. Ball investigates the potential of postcolonial feminist theory to illuminate the ways in which Palestinian artists have negotiated the intersections between national and gender politics.
Book Synopsis Politics of the Female Body by : Ketu H. Katrak
Download or read book Politics of the Female Body written by Ketu H. Katrak and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it possible to simultaneously belong to and be exiled from a community? Arguing that it is possible, the author uncovers the ways that the female body becomes a site of both oppression and resistance. She reveals common political and feminist alliances across geographic boundaries.
Book Synopsis Into the Nineties by : Anna Rutherford
Download or read book Into the Nineties written by Anna Rutherford and published by Armidale, N.S.W. : Dangaroo Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of critical essays and creative pieces by leading international women writers and academics.
Book Synopsis Postcolonial Imagination and Feminist Theology by : Pui-lan Kwok
Download or read book Postcolonial Imagination and Feminist Theology written by Pui-lan Kwok and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The burgeoning field of postcolonial studies argues that most theology has been formed in dominant cultures, laden intrinsically with imperializing structures. An essential task facing theology is thus to "decolonize" the mind and free Christianity from colonizing bias and structures. Here, in this truly groundbreaking study, highly respected feminist theologian Kwok Pui-lan offers the first full-length theological treatment of what it means to do postcolonial feminist theology. She explains her methodological basis and explores several specific topics, including Christology, pluralism, and creation.
Book Synopsis Cartographies of Transnationalism in Postcolonial Feminisms by : Jamil Khader
Download or read book Cartographies of Transnationalism in Postcolonial Feminisms written by Jamil Khader and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proffers a new theory of the radical possibilities of contemporary postcolonial feminist writings from Africa, the Middle East, the Americas, and the Caribbean, against what can be described as "actually-existing colonialisms." These writers include prominent and other less-known postcolonial women writers such as Tsitsi Dangarembga, Louise Erdrich, Aurora Levins Morales, Rosario Morales, Esmeralda Santiago, Raymonda Tawil, Michelle Cliff, and Rigoberta Mench . Negotiating the contradictions among gender, nation, and globalization, postcolonial women writers construct extimate subjectivities that mark their excessive locations in the social field through the dialectical relation between the intimate and the external, the intimately or internally external, articulating these contradictions within the larger history and narratives of anti-colonial internationalist struggle for liberation and emancipation. Grounded in a commitment to the future of the postcolonial nation and the project of decolonization and liberation within the ever-encroaching, neocolonial global capitalist system, postcolonial women's narratives of displacing offer not only an alternative mode of ideological critique of scripted and commonly-inherited discourses of identity, home, culture that obfuscate the fundamental social antagonism, but also ways of changing them through practices of radical politics. The book thus charts four intersecting, dialogic strategies, by which postcolonial women writers produce extimate subjectivities: travel, unhomeliness, multiple and shifting subject positions, and transnational alliances. First, specific strategies of travel, voluntary and involuntary, within glocal networks of dispossession, displacement, and labor migration that foreground their extimate locations as internally external. Second, tactics of unhomeliness that uncover traces of the foreign, and elsewhere, in the edifice of the familiar that serve as the basis for interrogating dominant discourses of belonging. Third, techniques of multiple and shifting subject positions that recognize the excessive location of the extimate subject, in order to unravel not only the contingency of the subject's ontic properties, but also her locations in the interplay of oppression and privilege. And fourth, strategies for building political solidarity with transnational and transethnic communities of struggle that are grounded in the concrete Universality of the excluded communities. This book bears witness to the radical possibility in contemporary postcolonial feminist writing, and promises a way out of the impasse of the current culturalization of politics in the humanities that has resulted from the uncritical celebration of hybridity and the concomitant emphasis on diaspora, postnationalism, and cosmopolitanism in dominant discourses of postcolonial, ethnic, and transnational studies.
Book Synopsis Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction by : Robert J. C. Young
Download or read book Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction written by Robert J. C. Young and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2003-06-26 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative and lively book is quite unlike any other introduction to postcolonialism. Robert Young examines the political, social, and cultural after-effects of decolonization by presenting situations, experiences, and testimony rather than going through the theory at an abstract level. He situates the debate in a wide cultural context, discussing its importance as an historical condition, with examples such as the status of aboriginal people, of those dispossessed from their land, Algerian raï music, postcolonial feminism, and global social and ecological movements. Above all, Young argues, postcolonialism offers a political philosophy of activism that contests the current situation of global inequality, and so in a new way continues the anti-colonial struggles of the past. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Book Synopsis Race, Rhetoric, and the Postcolonial by : Gary A. Olson
Download or read book Race, Rhetoric, and the Postcolonial written by Gary A. Olson and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six internationally renowned intellectuals are brought together in a cross-disciplinary dialogue that addresses rhetoric, writing, race, feminist theory, cultural studies, and postcolonial theory.
