Negotiating identities in women's lives

English postcolonial and contemporary British novels

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Negotiating identities in women's lives

English postcolonial and contemporary British novels

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Greenwood Press
Language
English
Pages
190

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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.

Published in
Westport, Conn
Series
Contributions in women's studies,, no. 196

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.91099287
Library of Congress
PR888.W6 S59 2002, PR888

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 190 p. ;
Number of pages
190

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3956239M
Internet Archive
negotiatingident0000size
ISBN 10
0313321639
LCCN
2001058642
OCLC/WorldCat
48620328
Goodreads
3089994

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