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Women and contemporary world literature : power, fragmentation, and metaphor /

Title
Women and contemporary world literature : power, fragmentation, and metaphor / Deborah Weagel.
Author
Weagel, Deborah Fillerup.
Publication
New York : Peter Lang, c2009.

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Description
xii, 129 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
American university studies. Series III, comparative literature, 0724-1445 ; v. 62
Uniform Title
American university studies. Series III Comparative literature ; v. 62.
Subject
  • Feminism in literature
  • Metaphor in literature
  • Power (Social sciences) in literature
  • Women and literature
  • Women in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz in seventeenth-century New Spain and finding a room of one's own -- The struggle for power in Mariama Bâ's Une si longue lettre -- The power, symbolism, and extension of the mother in Camara Laye's L'enfant noir: a feminine portrait by a masculine author -- Picasso, Rushdie, and the fragmented woman -- The metaphor of quilts and quiltmaking in Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine -- Patchwork and metaphor: Dina's quilt in Rohinton Mistry's A fine balance.
ISBN
  • 9781433104831 (alk. paper)
  • 1433104830 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2009011338
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library