TY  - BOOK
AU  - Oldfield,Elizabeth F.
TI  - Transgressing boundaries.: gender, identity, culture, and the 'other' in postcolonial women's
T2  - Cross/Cultures - Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English
SN  - 9401209553
AV  - PN56.P555 O43 2013
U1  - 809.9353 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - [Place of publication not identified]
PB  - Editions Rodopi B V
KW  - Postcolonialism in literature
KW  - Women authors, African
KW  - African fiction
KW  - Women authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Postcolonialisme dans la littérature
KW  - Écrivaines africaines
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Literary
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; 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 ThroughContemporary Children's Stories; Conclusion; Works Cited; Index
N2  - 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 situated in relation to colonialism. Notwithstanding the centrality of African literature in the new postcolonial literatures in English, the accomplishments of the indigenous writer Grace Ogot have been eclipsed by the critical attention given to her male counterparts, while Elspeth Huxley, Barbara Kim
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