Negotiating identities in women's lives : English postcolonial and contemporary British novels
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書誌事項
Negotiating identities in women's lives : English postcolonial and contemporary British novels
(Contributions in women's studies, no. 196)
Greenwood Press, 2002
大学図書館所蔵 全21件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-182) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Women face different psychological issues at different ages. But these issues and the experience of confronting them depend on cultural contexts. Literary works represent these psychological and social conflicts, but the manner of representation varies according to the culture of the author. This book brings together feminism, postcolonial theory, and developmental psychology to analyze how traditional literary forms are transformed by women writing in different cultures. The volume discusses works by such well known authors as Margaret Atwood, Nadine Gordimer, Keri Hulme, and Doris Lessing, along with fiction by less studied writers such as Barbara Burford, Joan Riley, and Jessica Anderson.
By juxtaposing novels from different cultures, the volume highlights the new ways in which women renegotiate their identities at different ages and writers reconfigure novelistic forms. The first chapter looks at the search for adulthood in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions, set in Zimbabwe, and in Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye, set in Canada. The second, on the seach for intimacy, analyzes how Barbara Burford's lesbian novella The Threshing Floor and Keri Hulme's evocation of Maori commensalism in The Bone People undo the traditional romance plot. Later chapters offer similar examinations of how various life stages, such as the searches for place, space, and integrity, are treated in other works.
目次
Introduction
Girlhood Identities: The Search for Adulthood in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions and Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye
Sexual Identities: The Search for Intimacy in Barbara Burford's "The Threshing Floor" and Keri Hulme's The Bone People
National Identities: The Search for Place in Buchi Emecheta's Kehinde and Anita Desai's Clear Light of Day
Social and Political Identities: The Search for Space in Margaret Drabbles's The Radiant Way and Nadine Gordimer's None to Accompany Me
Cultural Identities: The Search for Integrity in Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow and Jessica Anderson's Tirra Lirra by the River
Facing Death: The Search for a Legacy in Joan Riley's Waiting in the Twilight and Doris Lessing's The Diary of a Good Neighbor
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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