Stories of Women: Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial NationElleke Boehmer's work on the crucial intersections between independence, nationalism and gender has already proved canonical in the field. This book 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. |
Contents
engendered nation | 22 |
revolutionary | 42 |
gender and a new politics in Achebe | 54 |
the male leaders autobiography and the syntax | 66 |
gender and nationalism in | 88 |
the adolescent girl and the nation | 106 |
colonial body into postcolonial narrative | 127 |
Ben Okri Chenjerai Hove Dambudzo | 140 |
where postcolonialism is neoorientalist the cases | 158 |
the inflection of desire in Yvonne | 172 |
postcolonial women writers in a transnational | 187 |
defining the nation differently | 207 |
Other editions - View all
Stories of women: Gender and narrative in the postcolonial nation Elleke Boehmer Limited preview - 2013 |
Stories of Women: Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation Elleke Boehmer No preview available - 2005 |
Stories of Women: Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation Elleke Boehmer No preview available - 2009 |
Common terms and phrases
Achebe's African Literature Anthills Arundhati Roy becomes Ben Okri Biafra body Buchi Emecheta chapter Chinua Achebe colonial concept context critical cultural Dambudzo Marechera Dangarembga daughter desire discourse dominant Efuru elite especially essay example Famished Road father female feminine feminism feminist fiction figure Flora Nwapa forms gender girl global globalised Heinemann Hove iconic identity Igbo Ikem's images Imagined independence India leader literary London male Mandela Marechera masculine Matigari metaphor Midnight's Children mother narrative nation-state nationalist Nehru neocolonial Ngugi Ngugi wa Thiong'o Nigeria novel Nyasha Okri Oxford University Press particular patriarchal political position post-independence postcolonial postcolonial nation reading reality recognised relation representation represented resistance role Routledge Roy's Rushdie Sarojini Naidu sexual signifies social space Stories of women structures struggle symbolic theory Third World tion traditional trans transnational tropes Tsitsi Dangarembga Vera's Virmati woman women writers writing York Yvonne Yvonne Vera Zimbabwe Zimbabwean
References to this book
Post-colonial Studies: The Key Concepts Bill Ashcroft,Gareth Griffiths,Helen Tiffin No preview available - 2007 |
The Cambridge Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures in English C. L. Innes No preview available - 2007 |