Transnational Women’s Fiction

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Unsettling Home and Homeland

ISBN: 0230536875
ISBN 13: 9780230536876
Autor: Strehle, S
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: ix, 220 S.
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.04.2008
Auflage: 1/2008
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: Gebunden

Includes discussion of well-studied women writers such as Margaret Atwood and Toni Morrison, as well as newer writers like Chimamanda Adichie (Purple Hibiscus) and Simone LazarooExpands the canon by focussing on both established writers and emerging voicesOriginal approach transnational focus on women writers, using each as a case study for the way they use ‚the home‘ to represent a ‚homeland’/nationTaps into current increase of interest in both postcolonial studies and contemporary women’s fictionArgues that women writers ‚write locally but think globally‘, understanding the private home as part of the larger world-system

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Beschreibung

This study argues that the private homes in transnational women's fiction reflect public legacies of colonialism. Published in Australia, Canada, India, Nigeria, Puerto Rico and the United States between 1995 and 2005, the novels use fictional houses to criticize and unsettle home and homeland, depicting their linked oppressions and exclusions.

Autorenporträt

SUSAN STREHLE is Professor of English at Binghamton University, USA. She is the author of Fiction in the Quantum Universe and co-editor of Doubled Plots: Romance and History. She has published essays on contemporary American and global fiction in journals including Critique, Contemporary Literature and Modern Fiction Studies.

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