Postcolonial Feminine Writing: Bodies, Gazes and Voices

ISBN-13: 9783631861233 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 162 str.

Mine Sevinc

Opis

This book focuses on the premise that contemporary postcolonial women writers reclaim a new position of writing which mirrors and transcends the storytelling of Shahrazad in terms of theme and structure. It questions the extent to which Shahrazad is employed as a liberating figure in contemporary postcolonial women's narratives. Postcolonial feminine writing allows temporary interventions into the patriarchal and colonial discourses. The repetition of these temporary interventions suggests the possibility of more subversive and liberating literary discourses.

Spis treści

Postcolonial Feminine Writing - Re-writing the Postcolonial - Re- writing the Storyteller: al- Shaykh's One Thousand and One Nights (2011) - 'A Unique World of Spectacle': Re- formulating the Gaze in Shafak's The Gaze (2006) - Silences and Shames in Shafak's Honour (2012) - Conclusion - Bibliography - Index

O autorze

Mine Sevinç holds a PhD in English literature from the University of Surrey, UK. She
teaches and researches in the areas of postcolonial women's writing, gender theories,
theories of the gaze and Shahrazad's re-narratives in contemporary postcolonial
fiction.