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Transgressing Boundaries - Gender, Identity, Culture, and the 'Other' in Postcolonial Women's Narratives in East Africa (Hardcover)
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Transgressing Boundaries - Gender, Identity, Culture, and the 'Other' in Postcolonial Women's Narratives in East Africa (Hardcover)
Series: Cross/Cultures, 164
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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 Kimenye, and Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye, who are of
Western cultural provenance but adopt an African perspective, are
not accommodated by the genre of 'expatriate literature'. The
present study of both indigenous and white (post)colonial women's
narratives that are common to both categories fills this gap.
Focused on the representation of gender, identity, culture, and the
'Other', the texts selected are set in Kenya and Uganda, and a main
concern is with the extent to which they are influenced by setting
and intercultural influences. The 'African' woman's creation of
textuality is at once the expression of female individualities and
a transgression of boundaries. The particular category of fiction
for children as written by Kimenye and Macgoye reveals the
configuration of a voice and identity for the female 'Other' and
writer which enables a subversive renegotiation of identity in the
face of patriarchal traditions.
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