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Stories of women : gender and narrative in the postcolonial nation / Elleke Boehmer

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Publisher Manchester ; New York : New York, NY, USA : Manchester University Press ;
Year 2005
Language English
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9781781701898

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Contents Motherlands, mothers and nationalist sons: theorising the en-gendered nation
"The master's dance to the master's voice": revolutionary nationalism and women's representation in Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Of goddesses and stories: gender and a new politics in Achebe
The hero's story: the male leader's autobiography and the syntax of postcolonial nationalism
Stories of women and mothers: gender and nationalism in the early fiction of Flora Nwapa
Daughters of the house: the adolescent girl and the nation
Transfiguring: colonial body into postcolonial narrative
The nation as metaphor: Ben Okri, Chenjerai Hove, Dambudzo Marachera
East is east: where postcolonialism is neo-orientalist
the cases of Sarojini Naidu and Arundhati Roy
Tropes of yearning and dessent: the inflection of desire in Yvonne Vera and Tsitsi Dangarembga
Beside the west: postcolonial women writers in a transnational frame
Conclusion: defining the nation differently
Notes "Why is the nation in a postcolonial world so often seen as a motherland? This pathbreaking study, Stories of women: Gender and narrative in the postcolonial nation, explores the perennially fascinating relationship between gender icons and foundational fictions of the nation in different postcolonial spaces." "The book will draw interest from readers and researchers of postcolonial, international and women's writing; of nation theory, colonial history and historiography; and of Indian, African, migrant and diasporic literatures."--Jacket
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 new paperback 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
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-234) and index
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Authors *Boehmer, Elleke, 1961-
Subjects LCSH:English literature -- English-speaking countries -- History and criticism  All Subject Search
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LCSH:Nationalism in literature
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FREE:Nationalism in literature
FREE:Postcolonialism in literature
FREE:Sex role in literature
FREE:English-speaking countries
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FREE:Criticism, interpretation, etc
Classification DC22:809.93358
ID ED00003302
ISBN 9781781701898

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