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Postnational feminisms : postcolonial identities and cosmopolitanism in the works of Kamala Markandaya, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Ama Ata Aidoo, and Anita Desai
- Title
- Postnational feminisms : postcolonial identities and cosmopolitanism in the works of Kamala Markandaya, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Ama Ata Aidoo, and Anita Desai / Hena Ahmad.
- Author
- Ahmad, Hena.
- Publication
- New York : Peter Lang, [2010].
- ©2010
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- Description
- 148 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Postnational Feminisms: Postcolonial Identities and Cosmopolitanism in the Works of Kamala Markandaya, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Ama Ata Aidoo, and Anita Desai offers a significant contribution to the field of postcolonial and Third World feminist studies. It reevaluates the ways in which Third World women writers interrogate the relationship between woman and nation in the postcolonial context. Hena Ahmad brings forth the concept of "postnational feminism," which she deploys to show how these major writers challenge the role of women as signifiers of national cultures in their works. This innovative concept illuminates the ambivalence of these uniquely positioned writers as Ahmad explores the connection between postnationalism and Third World feminism."--Book Jacket.
- Series Statement
- American university studies. Series XXVII, Feminist studies, 1042-5985 ; v. 8
- Uniform Title
- American university studies. Series XXVII, Feminist studies ; v. 8.
- Subject
- Markandaya, Kamala, 1924-2004
- Dangarembga, Tsitsi
- Desai, Anita, 1937-
- Aidoo, Ama Ata, 1942-2023
- Aidoo, Ama Ata 1942-
- Dangarembga, Tsitsi 1959-
- Dangarembga, Tsitsi 1960-
- Desai, Anita 1937-
- Markandaya, Kamala 1924-2004
- Nervo, Amado
- Aidoo, Ama Ata
- Dangarembga, Tsitsi
- Desai, Anita
- Markandaya, Kamala
- Markandaya, Kamala
- Aidoo, Ama Ata
- Desai, Anita
- Commonwealth fiction (English) > Women authors > History and criticism
- Feminism in literature
- Postcolonialism in literature
- Cosmopolitanism in literature
- Women > Commonwealth countries > Identity
- Nationalism in literature
- Feminism and literature > Commonwealth countries
- Feminism and literature
- Women > Identity
- Frau Motiv
- Nation Motiv
- Postkolonialismus Motiv
- Roman
- Postkolonialismus > Frauenliteratur > englische > Commonwealth
- Frauenliteratur > englische > Commonwealth > Postkolonialismus
- Entkolonialisierung
- Nation
- Postkoloniale Literatur
- Motiv (Literatur)
- Feminismus
- Commonwealth countries
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Postcolonial third world feminism and the postnational -- Woman, nation and culture in Kamala Markandaya's Nectar in a sieve -- Resisting the colonial and the patriarchal in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous conditions -- Third world feminism and the nation in Anita Desai's Clear light of day -- Modes of resistance in Ama Ata Aidoo's Changes.
- ISBN
- 9780820452470
- 0820452475
- LCCN
- 2009039368
- OCLC
- ocn454367198
- 454367198
- SCSB-1540240
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library