Post-Colonial and African American Women's Writing: A Critical Introduction

ISBN-13: 9780333727461 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 376 str.

Gina Wisker

Opis

This accessible and unusually wide-ranging book is essential reading for anyone interested in postcolonial and African American women's writing. It provides a valuable gender and culture inflected critical introduction to well established women writers: Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Margaret Atwood, Suniti Namjoshi, Bessie Head, and others from the U.S.A., India, Africa, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and introduces emergent writers from South East Asia, Cyprus and Oceania. Engaging with and clarifying contested critical areas of feminism and the postcolonial; exploring historical background and cultural context, economic, political, and psychoanalytic influences on gendered experience, it provides a cohesive discussion of key issues such as cultural and gendered identity, motherhood, mothertongue, language, relationships, women's economic constraints and sexual politics.

Spis treści

Introduction.- PART ONE: AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN'S WRITING.- African American Women's Writing.- Toni Morrison.- Alice Walker.- PART TWO: WRITING BY WOMEN FROM POSTCOLONIAL CONTEXTS.- Caribbean Women's Writing.- African Women's Writing.- Writing by Women from South Africa.- Writing by Women from the Indian Sub-Continent.- Australian Women's Writing.- Writing by Women from Aotearoa (New Zealand).- Canadian Women's Writing.- Black British Women's Writing.- PART THREE: EMERGENT WOMEN'S WRITING.- South East Asian Women's Writing.- Writing by Women from Oceania the Pacific Rim.- Writing by Women from Cyprus.- Notes.- Index.

O autorze

GINA WISKER is Principal Lecturer in English, Head of Women's Studies and principal teaching and learning adviser at Anglia Polytechnic University.