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Stories of Women - Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation (Paperback)
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Stories of Women - Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation (Paperback)
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Why is the nation in a postcolonial world so often seen as a
motherland? This pathbreaking study, 'Stories of women: Gender and
narrative in the postcolonial nation', explores the perenially
fascinating relationship between gender icons and foundational
fictions of the nation in different postcolonial spaces. The
leading critic and theorist of postcolonial writing Elleke
Boehmer's work on the crucial intersections between independence,
nationalism and gender has already proved canonical in the field.
Stories of women combines her keynote essays on the mother figure
and the postcolonial nation, along with incisive new work on male
autobiography, 'daughter' writers, the colonial body, the trauma of
the postcolony, and the nation in a transnational context. Focusing
on Africa as well as South Asia, and sexuality as well as gender,
Boehmer offers fine close readings of writers ranging from Achebe,
Okri and Mandela to Arundhati Roy and Yvonne Vera, shaping these
into a critical engagement with theorists of the nation like
Fredric Jameson and Partha Chatterjee. Moving beyond cynical
deconstructions of the postcolony, the book mounts a bracing
reassessment of the postcolonial nation as a site of potential
empowerment, as a 'paradoxical refuge' in a globalised world.
'Stories of women' acts on its own impassioned argument that
postcolonial and nation-state studies address substantively issues
hitherto raised chiefly within international feminism. It is likely
to prove a landmark study in the field. The book will draw interest
from readers and researchers of postcolonial, international and
women's writing; of nation theory, colonial history and
historiography; and of Indian, African, migrant and diasporic
literatures.
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