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Bloomsbury Academic Negotiating Identities in Women's Lives: English Postcolonial and Contemporary British Novels: 196 (Contributions in Women's Studies)

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Product Description 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. Review ?Combines feminist and postcolonial theory with developmental psychology in a study of how culture influences how female writers depict pivotal life experiences.?-The Chronicle of Higher Education "Combines feminist and postcolonial theory with developmental psychology in a study of how culture influences how female writers depict pivotal life experiences."-The Chronicle of Higher Education About the Author CHRISTINE WICK SIZEMORE is Professor of English at Spelman College. She has published journal articles and essays on such contemporary women writers as Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, Buchi Emecheta, Maureen Duffy, and Marge Piercy, and on various British and European modernists, including Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, and Franz Kafka. She is the author of A Female Vision of the City: London in the Novels of Five British Women (1989).

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Brand: Bloomsbury Academic
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0313321639
Category: Books > Subjects > Children's Books
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 30 May 2002
Listed Since: 15 January 2007

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