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Transgressing boundaries : gender, identity, culture, and the 'other' in postcolonial women's narratives in East Africa
- Title
- Transgressing boundaries : gender, identity, culture, and the 'other' in postcolonial women's narratives in East Africa / Elizabeth F. Oldfield.
- Author
- Oldfield, Elizabeth F.
- Publication
- Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2013.
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Details
- Description
- xxix, 254 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Fictions written between 1939 and 2005 by indigenous and white (post)colonial women writers emerging from an African-European cultural experience form the focus of this study. Their voyages into the European diasporic space in Africa are important for conveying how African women's literature is situated in relation to colonialism. Notwithstanding the centrality of African literature in the new postcolonial literatures in English, the accomplishments of the indigenous writer Grace Ogot have been eclipsed by the critical attention given to her male counterparts, while Elspeth Huxley, Barbara Kimenye, and Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye, who are of Western cultural provenance but adopt an African perspective, are not accommodated by the genre of 'expatriate literature'. The present study of both indigenous and white (post)colonial women's narratives that are common to both categories fills this gap."--Publisher website.
- Series Statement
- Cross/cultures, 0924-1426 ; 164
- Uniform Title
- Cross/cultures ; 164.
- Subjects
- Note
- Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Derby.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-237) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Agency, voice, and sense of self : re-writing African women's identity -- Apace and 'African' women writers -- Woman, the visitor : re-presenting the female authorial voice -- Delineating the position of African women -- Creative dialogue, signification, gender, and space : talking through contemporary children's stories -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- Index.
- Call Number
- Sc E 15-636
- ISBN
- 9789042036970
- 9042036974
- 9789401209557 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2012361332
- OCLC
- 854556107
- Author
- Oldfield, Elizabeth F., editor.
- Title
- Transgressing boundaries : gender, identity, culture, and the 'other' in postcolonial women's narratives in East Africa / Elizabeth F. Oldfield.
- Publisher
- Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2013.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Cross/cultures, 0924-1426 ; 164Cross/cultures ; 164.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-237) and index.
- Other Form:
- 9789401209557(GyWOH)har135015858
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 15-636