| Description |
xxv, 289 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Contributions in women's studies, 0147-104X ; 147 |
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Contributions in women's studies ; no. 147.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Female self-definition and the African community in Mariama Bâ's epistolary novel "So long a letter" / Eva Rueschmann -- (Re)presenting the self : identity and consciousness in the feature films of Safi Faye / Sheila J. Petty -- Sappho's daughters : lesbian identities in novels by Québécois women (1960-1990) / Anne E. Brown -- Finding a place for Christa Wolf : gendered identity in No Place on Earth / Marjanne E. Goozé -- Maryse Condé's Hérémakhonon : a |
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triangular structure of alienation / Arlette M. Smith -- Colonial discourse and female identity : Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine / Suzanne Kehde -- Fragmented identities and the process of metamorphosis in works by Lygia Fagundes Telles / Peggy Sharpe -- Imaginative space of Medbh McGuckian / Susan Porter -- Writing the woman-subject : Marguerite Duras, from theory to fiction / Anne-Marie Gronhovd -- Mysterious space of exile : Punishable Songs by Judith Grossmann |
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/ Susan Canty Quinlan -- Inner and outer space in the works of Esther Rochon / Annick Chapdelaine -- Southern Africa and the theme of madness : novels by Doris Lessing, Bessie Head, and Nadine Gordimer / Nancy Topping Bazin -- Dismantling the master's houses : Jean Rhys and West Indian identity / Fiona R. Barnes -- Wild child, tropical flower, mad wife : female identity in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea / Deanna Madden -- Isabel Allende and the discourse of |
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exile / Marketta Laurila -- Too disconnected/too bound up : the paradox of identity in Mercé Rodoreda's The Time of the Doves / Kayann Short -- Scientist and mother : portrait of the heroine in I. Grekova's fiction / Margareta Thompson -- Italian women in search of identity in Dacia Maraini's novels / Vera F. Golini -- Naming the unspeakable : the mapping of female identity in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior / Marlene Goldman -- Born of a stranger : |
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mother-daughter relationships and storytelling in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club / Gloria Shen -- Ambivalence of mirroring and female bonding in Paule Marshall's Brown Girl, Brownstones / Laura Niesen de Abruña -- No place for identity : Jeannete Lander's migrating women's aesthetic / Tobe Levin -- Expatriate Afro-American women as exotics / Marilyn Elkins |
| Subject |
Literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Identity (Psychology) in literature.
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Feminist literary criticism.
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| Indexed Term |
Literature By Women |
| Added Author |
Brown, Anne E.
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Goozé, Marjanne Elaine.
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| ISBN |
0313290458 alkaline paper |
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