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050 00 $aPR9387.9.E36$bZ67 1995
082 00 $a823$220
100 1 $aFishburn, Katherine,$d1944-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81116946
245 10 $aReading Buchi Emecheta :$bcross-cultural conversations /$cKatherine Fishburn.
260 $aWestport, Conn. :$bGreenwood Press,$c1995.
263 $a9504
300 $axiii, 201 pages ;$c25 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aContributions to the study of world literature,$x0738-9345 ;$vno. 61
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: A Question of Power. Interactive Readings. Hidden Prejudices. The Self-Contextualized Critic: Foregrounding Our Prejudices and Traditions. The Language of Perspicuous Contrast -- 1. The Author - and Reader - as Other: A Postmodern Approach to African Fiction. Hermeneutic Charity. Questioning Liberalism and Liberal Feminism. A Postmodern Approach. Reconfiguring Authors and Readers -- 2. Aesthetics, Language, and Politics. Definitions of Individuality and Aesthetic Consequences. Art for Art's Sake? Artistic Commitment - To Whom and to What? Dialogic Heteroglossia: Whose English Is It? Epistemology and Narrative Form -- 3. Life as an Emigre. A Double Marginality. Intelligibility and the (Social) Construction of Rationality. A Difference in Values: The Individual and the Community. Retaining and Translating a Cultural Heritage. Love, Marriage, and Narrative Consequences. A Defense of African Culture and Corruption in the West. A Matter of Signifying and Dialogic Heteroglossia.
505 8 $a4. The Sense of an Ending. A Matter of Genres. Narrative Intentions. Epic or Novel? Heteroglossia and Textual Plurality. Competing Discourses and the Construction of Reality. Narrative Telos. A Melange of Customs and Hybrid Constructions. Questions of Enslavement, Prologues, and Endings. Human Constants and Dialogic Heteroglossia. Christianity and the Role of Nigerian Women. The Competing Voices of Tradition and Modernization. Signifying and the Question of Endings. Inscribing the Feminine -- 5. The Difference of View. Traversing (Traditional) Boundaries. From a Woman's Perspective. Sexual/Textual Politics. Double-Voiced Discourse and Interpretive Dilemmas. Didacticism and Heteroglossia. That Which Divides Us. Limitations of Cultural Relativism. Enlarging Our Horizons. The Agonistics of Language Games. Textual Ambiguity: Moments of Misunderstanding. A New Community of Interpreters.
600 10 $aEmecheta, Buchi$xCriticism and interpretation.
650 0 $aWomen and literature$zNigeria$xHistory$y20th century.
651 0 $aAfrica$xIn literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100686
830 0 $aContributions to the study of world literature ;$vno. 61.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83701850
852 00 $bglx$hPR9387.9.E36$iZ67 1995