Confining spaces, resistant subjectivities : toward a metachronous discourse of literary mapping and transformation in postcolonial women's writing / Kinana Hamam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hamam, Kinana, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book represents a significant contribution to academic knowledge, making a compelling case for a contemporary analytical re-reading of a number of ""core"" postcolonial women's narratives, such as Erna Brodber's Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home, Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood, and Mariama Bâ's So Long a Letter. These narratives highlight diversity, contextuality, opposition, and metachrony, have a ""generative literary function"", and anticipate what have now become postcolonial ...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; WORKS CITED

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 28, 2014).

ISBN:

1-4438-6553-2

OCLC:

887507825