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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, ©2009.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | PN56.5.W64 W43 2009 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xii, 129 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Many women in cultures throughout the world exhibit resilience and power in the face of obstacles and vicissitudes. From colonial New Spain to postcolonial Africa and India, Women and Contemporary World Literature examines ways in which women in literature function within their specific culture and circumstances to confront the challenges they encounter. In spite of fragmentation in their lives -- much like quiltmakers -- they piece together the scraps of their existence to form an integrated and complete whole."--Publisher's description.
- 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
- Women in literature
- Metaphor in literature
- Power (Social sciences) in literature
- Feminism in literature
- Women and literature
- Feminism in literature
- Metaphor in literature
- Power (Social sciences) in literature
- Women and literature
- Women in literature
- Frau Motiv
- Literatur
- Frau
- Motiv
- Litteraturvetenskap > författare
- Kvinnobilden
- Mansbilden
- Metaforer
- Makt
- Feminism
- Kvinnor i litteraturen
- Feminism i litteraturen
- Frau <Motiv>
- 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
- 1433104830
- LCCN
- 2009011338
- OCLC
- ocn316327272
- 316327272
- SCSB-1522827
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library