Stories of women: Gender and narrative in the postcolonial by Elleke Boehmer

By Elleke Boehmer

Elleke Boehmer's paintings at the an important intersections among independence, nationalism and gender has already proved canonical within the box. 'Stories of ladies' combines her keynote essays at the mom determine and the postcolonial country, with incisive new paintings on male autobiography, 'daughter' writers, the colonial physique, the trauma of the post-colony, and the kingdom in a transnational context. targeting Africa in addition to South Asia, and sexuality in addition to gender, Boehmer bargains superb shut readings of writers starting from Achebe, Okri and Mandela to Arundhati Roy and Yvonne Vera, shaping those right into a severe engagement with theorists of the country like Fredric Jameson and Partha Chatterjee.

This new paperback variation might be of curiosity to readers and researchers of postcolonial, foreign and women's writing; of state concept, colonial background and historiography; of Indian, African, migrant and diasporic literatures, and is probably going to end up a landmark research within the field.

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