Post-Colonial and African American Women's Writing

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This accessible and unusually wide-ranging book is essential reading for anyone interested in postcolonial and African American women's writing. It provides a valuable 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 U.S.A., India, Africa, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and 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.
A broad introduction to two popular areas of modern literature
Covers both well established writers such as Margaret Atwood and Alice Walker and less wellknown women, such as Buchi Emecheta and Bessie Head
Includes writers from commonly studied postcolonial contexts, such as Australia and India and emergent contexts, such as South East Asia and Oceania
Has an accessible critical focus, both contextual and women's traditions and feminist criticism oriented

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