Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Boehmer, Elleke, 1961-

Publication

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York, NY, USA : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2005.

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Details

Description

x, 239 pages; 25 cm

Summary

"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.

Subject

• English literature > English-speaking countries > History and criticism
• Sex role in literature
• Postcolonialism in literature
• Nationalism in literature
• English literature
• Nationalism in literature
• Postcolonialism in literature
• Sex role in literature
• Englisch
• Frauenliteratur
• Postkolonialismus
• Literature
• Sex differences
• National consciousness
• Post-colonialism
• Women
• Gender roles
• English-speaking countries
• Subsaharisches Afrika
• Südasien
• Englisch

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-234) and index.

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.

ISBN

• 0719068789
• 9780719068782

LCCN

• 2005296314
• 9780719068782

OCLC

• ocm57751176
• 57751176
• SCSB-14719932

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library