Postcolonial feminine writing : bodies, gazes and voices / Mine Sevinç.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sevinc, Mine, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist literary criticism.

Feminism and literature.

Postcolonialism.

postcolonialism.

Physical Description:

162 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Peter Lang, [2022]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction: Postcolonial Feminine Writing

Chapter I: Re-writing the Storyteller: al-Shaykh's One Thousand and One Nights (2011)

Chapter II: 'A Unique World of Spectacle': Re-forming the Gaze in Shafak's The Gaze (2006)

Chapter III: Silences and Shames in Shafak's Honour (2012)

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3631861230

9783631861233

OCLC:

1285671587