Stories of Women : Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation /
Elleke Boehmer's work on the crucial intersections between independence, nationalism and gender has already proved canonical in the field. 'Stories of women' combines her keynote essays on the mother figure and the postcolonial nation, with incisive new work on male autobiography, �...
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Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave,
2005.
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Table of Contents:
- Motherlands, mothers and nationalist sons: theorising the en-gendered nation
- "The master's dance to the master's voice": revolutionary nationalism and women's representation in Ngugi wa Thiong'o
- Of goddesses and stories: gender and a new politics in Achebe
- The hero's story: the male leader's autobiography and the syntax of postcolonial nationalism
- Stories of women and mothers: gender and nationalism in the early fiction of Flora Nwapa
- Daughters of the house: the adolescent girl and the nation
- Transfiguring: colonial body into postcolonial narrative
- The nation as metaphor: Ben Okri, Chenjerai Hove, Dambudzo Marachera
- East is east: where postcolonialism is neo-orientalist
- the cases of Sarojini Naidu and Arundhati Roy
- Tropes of yearning and dessent: the inflection of desire in Yvonne Vera and Tsitsi Dangarembga
- Beside the west: postcolonial women writers in a transnational frame
- Conclusion: defining the nation differently.