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Subjects
Commonwealth (English) and English, Commonwealth fiction (English), Comparative Literature, English and Commonwealth (English), English fiction, Group identity in literature, History, History and criticism, Identity (Psychology) in literature, Postcolonialism, Postcolonialism in literature, Women and literature, Women authors, Comparative literature, English fiction, history and criticism, 20th centuryTimes
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Negotiating identities in women's lives: English postcolonial and contemporary British novels
2002, Greenwood Press
in English
0313321639 9780313321634
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: Introduction 1
1. Girlhood Identities: The Search for Adulthood
in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions
and Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye 21
2. Sexual Identities: The Search for Intimacy in Barbara
Burford's "The Threshing Floor" and Keri Hulme's
The Bone People 37
3. National Identities: The Search for Place in Buchi
Emecheta's Kehinde and Anita Desai's Clear Light
of Day 59
4. Social and Political Identities: The Search for Space
in Margaret Drabble's The Radiant Way and Nadine
Gordimer's None to Accompany Me 79 5. Cultural Identities: The Search for Integrity in Paule
Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow and Jessica
Anderson's Tirra Lirra by the River 107
6. Facing Death: The Search for a Legacy in Joan Riley's
Waiting in the Twilight and Doris Lessing's The Diary
of a Good Neighbour 125.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-182) and index.
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