Research Catalog

Title

Eye to eye, women : their words and worlds : life in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean as seen in photographs and in fiction by the region's top women writers / [edited by Vanessa Baird ; introduction by Anita Desai].

Publication

London ; New York : Serpent's Tail, 1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

Baird, Vanessa.

Description

127 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits; 26 cm

Alternative Title

Women, eye to eye

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Literature > Women authors
• Literature, Modern > 20th century
• Drama > Women authors
• Fiction > Women authors
• Poetry > Women authors
• Short stories > Women authors
• Literature, Modern
• Écrits de femmes
• Littérature > 20e siècle
• Short stories > Women authors
• Poetry > Women authors
• Fiction > Women authors
• Drama > Women authors
• Literature, Modern
• Literature > Women authors
• Anthologie
• Bildband
• Frau Motiv
• Frau
• Literatur
• Soziale Situation
• Entwicklungsländer

Genre/Form

• Literature
• Literature.
• Littérature.

Contents

• Love and life: Senegal, on a long friendship, from 'so long letter' / Mariama Ba -- Santa Lucia, on infidelity, 'Cliche's for an unfaithful husband' / Jane King -- Egypt, on love eternal and other myths, 'Eternal love' / Nawal El Saadawi -- Ecuador, on erotic attraction, 'Hidden pleasure' / Fanny Fierro -- Egypt, on complicity in the family, 'An incident in the Ghobashi household' / Alifa Rifaat -- Pakistan, on pregnancy, 'Come, give me your hand' / Fahmida Riaz -- India, on love across generations, from "My beloved charioteer' / Shashi Deshpande -- Chile, on a special woman, from 'My Mother' / Gabriela Mistral -- Cuba, on love, hate and amartory addiction, 'A man, a woman' / Omega Aguero -- Work and play: Ghana, on being a professional woman, from 'Changes' / Ama Ata Aidoo -- Egypt, on the joy of learning, from 'Woman at point zero' / Nawal El Saadawi -- China, on becoming a worker in Mao's China, from 'Wild swans' / Jung Chang -- Bolivia, on growing up a girl in a mining community, from 'Let me speak' / Domitila Barrios de Chungara -- Uganda, on a village woman's day, 'Arise to the day's toil!' / Assumpta Acam-Oturu -- Somalia, on a nomadic childhood, from 'Aman, the story of a girl' / Aman -- India, on work in her mother's village, from 'Unveiling India' / Anees Jung -- Culture and creativity: Chile, on stories sacred and profane, from 'Eva Luna' / Isabel Allende -- Botswanna, on the dubious origins of an African pot, from 'The Old Iron Cooking Pot of Europe' / Bessie Head -- India, on seduction by cinema, from 'The accompanist' / Anita Desai.
• Brazil, on a rendezvous with voodoo, from 'The hour of the star' / Clarice Lispector -- Guyana, on a fat black woman's wishes, 'A tropical death' / India, no mixing cultures, from 'Karma Cola' / Gita Mehta -- Egypt, on change, from 'The fall' / Malak' Abd Al-aziz -- Korea, on dreams and nightmares, from 'The bronze mirror' / O Chonghui -- India, on problems with the stars, from 'Rites of passage' / Bulbul Sharma -- Environment: India, on noise and chaos, from 'Studies in the park' / Anita Desai -- Tunisia, on land and survival, from 'And we were born' / Amina Said -- Argentina, on a retreat to the mountains, from 'Up among the eagles' / Luisa Valenzuela -- Pakistan, on climate and colonialism, from 'To masters of countries with cold climates' / Kishwar Naheed -- India, on ties to the village, from 'Unveiling India' -- Somalia, on her own nomadic birth, from 'Aman, story of a Somalia girl' / Aman -- Politica and society: South Africa, on race and self-expression, 'I will sing' / Amelia Blossom Pegram -- Ester, a 'mother of the disappeared' speaks to Margaret Hooks in 'Guatamalan Women Speak' -- Chile, on class and double-standards, from 'The house of spirits' / Isabel Allende -- India, on the war between girls and boys, from 'Daughter's daughter' / Mrinal Pande -- Guyana, on mixed racial identities, from 'Tapestry' / Grace Nichols -- Peru, on social expectations, 'The grocer's dream' / Giovanna Pollarolo -- Ghana, on freedom struggles, 'Liberation' / Abena Busia -- India, on womanliness, 'The gods' / Suniti Namjoshi -- Egypt, on the clash between a woman and the local holy man, 'The long trial' -- Tigray, on being a guerilla, from 'Sweeter than honey; Testimonies of Tigrayan women' / Kebbedesh -- Endpiece: Chile, on the joy of living, 'I thank life for so many gifts' / Violetta Parra -- Notes on the authors -- Contacts for photographers -- Acknowledgements.

ISBN

• 1852425814
• 9781852425814

LCCN

97067086

OCLC

• ocm37932921
• 37932921
• SCSB-541921

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library