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This work offers a gender and culture inflected critical introduction to well established women writers: Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Margaret Atwood, Suniti Namjoshi, Bessie Head, and others from the USA, India, Africa, Britain, Australia and New Zealand. It also introduces emergent writers from South East Asia, Cyprus and Oceania. Engaging with and clarifying contested critical areas of feminism and the postcolonial; exploring historical background and cultural context, economic, political, and psychoanalytic influences on gendered experience; it provides a cohesive discussion of key issues such as cultural and gendered identity, motherhood, mothertongue, language, relationships, women's economic constraints and sexual politics.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Post-Colonial and African American Women's Writing
• Author: Gina Wisker
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 376
• EAN: 9780333727461
• ISBN: 0333727460
• ID: 01327152
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 510 g
• Dimensions: 146 × 221 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 19. September 2000

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