Transgressing Boundaries Gender, Identity, Culture, and the 'Other' in Postcolonial Women's Narratives in East Africa

• Main Author: Oldfield, Elizabeth F
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston BRILL 2013
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: African fiction-Women authors-History and criticism; Postcolonialism in literature; Women authors, African

Fictions written between 1939 and 2005 by indigenous and white (post)colonial women writers emerging from an African-European cultural experience form the focus of this study. Their voyages into the European diasporic space in Africa are important for conveying how African women's literature is...

Table of Contents:

• Intro -- Transgressing Boundaries: Gender, Identity, Culture, and the 'Other' in Postcolonial Women's Narratives in East Africa -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Agency, Voice, and Sense of Self: Re-Writing African Women's Identity -- 2 Space and 'African' Women Writers -- 3 Woman, the Visitor: Re-Presenting the Female Authorial Voice -- 4 Delineating the Position of African Women -- 5 Creative Dialogue, Signification, Gender, and Space: Talking Through Contemporary Children's Stories -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index