| Author | : Gina Wisker |
| File Size | : 42,9 Mb |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Language | : English |
| Release Date | : 04 March 2017 |
| ISBN | : 9780333985243 |
| Pages | : 376 pages |
Post Colonial and African American Women s Writing by Gina Wisker Book PDF Summary
This accessible and unusually wide-ranging book is essential reading for anyone interested in postcolonial and African American women's writing. It provides a valuable gender and culture inflected critical introduction to well established women writers: Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Margaret Atwood, Suniti Namjoshi, Bessie Head, and others from the U.S.A., India, Africa, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and introduces emergent writers from South East Asia, Cyprus and Oceania. Engaging with and clarifying contested critical areas of feminism and the postcolonial; exploring historical background and cultural context, economic, political, and psychoanalytic influences on gendered experience, it provides a cohesive discussion of key issues such as cultural and gendered identity, motherhood, mothertongue, language, relationships, women's economic constraints and sexual politics.