Women's writing, Englishness and national and cultural identity : the mobile woman and the migrant voice, 1938-1962

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Women's writing, Englishness and national and cultural identity : the mobile woman and the migrant voice, 1938-1962

Maroula Joannou

Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-221) and index

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Description

An original mapping of women's writing in the 1940s and 1950s, this book looks at Englishness and national identity in women's writing and includes writing from Scotland, Wales, Ireland the Indian subcontinent and Africa. The authors discussed include Virginia Woolf, Daphne Du Maurier, Doris Lessing and Muriel Spark.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction: The Mobile Woman and the Migrant Voice The People's War Austen and Englishness Englishness as History Present Laughter My Ain Folk 'Indias of the Mind' In and Out of Africa Bibliography Index

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