Women and contemporary world literature power, fragmentation, and metaphor /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Weagel, Deborah Fillerup
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Peter Lang, c2009.
Series:American university studies. Comparative literature ; v. 62.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz in seventeenth-century New Spain and finding a room of one's own
  • The struggle for power in Mariama Bâ's Une si longue lettre
  • The power, symbolism, and extension of the mother in Camara Laye's L'enfant noir: a feminine portrait by a masculine author
  • Picasso, Rushdie, and the fragmented woman
  • The metaphor of quilts and quiltmaking in Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine
  • Patchwork and metaphor: Dina's quilt in Rohinton Mistry's A fine balance.