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Stories of Women: Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation
Elleke Boehmer
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Paperback. Why is the nation in a postcolonial world so often seen as a motherland? Stories of women is a pathbreaking study of the perenially fascinating relationship between foundational fictions of the nation and gendered images. The book focuses critically on postcolonial spaces ranging from West Africa to India. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH5. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 14. Weight in Grams: 384.
Elleke Boehmer's work on the crucial intersections between independence, nationalism and gender has already proved canonical in the field. 'Stories of women' combines her keynote essays on the mother figure and the postcolonial nation, with incisive new work on male autobiography, 'daughter' writers, the colonial body, the trauma of the post-colony, and the nation in a transnational context. Focusing on Africa as well as South Asia, and sexuality as well as gender, Boehmer offers fine close readings of writers ranging from Achebe, Okri and Mandela to Arundhati Roy and Yvonne Vera, shaping these into a critical engagement with theorists of ... Read more
Elleke Boehmer's work on the crucial intersections between independence, nationalism and gender has already proved canonical in the field. 'Stories of women' combines her keynote essays on the mother figure and the postcolonial nation, with incisive new work on male autobiography, 'daughter' writers, the colonial body, the trauma of the post-colony, and the nation in a transnational context. Focusing on Africa as well as South Asia, and sexuality as well as gender, Boehmer offers fine close readings of writers ranging from Achebe, Okri and Mandela to Arundhati Roy and Yvonne Vera, shaping these into a critical engagement with theorists of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719068799
SKU
V9780719068799
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About Elleke Boehmer
Elleke Boehmer is Hildred Carlile Professor in English at Royal Holloway, University of London -- .
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