Stories of Women: Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation - Elleke Boehmer - Books - Manchester University Press - 9780719068782 - September 3, 2005
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Stories of Women: Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation

Elleke Boehmer

Stories of Women: Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation

A probing study of the still-growing field of gender-and-nation interaction, and of how fiction has proved foundational in the imagining of the post-independence nation; Offers a fresh, informed take on the ways in which nations are represented in gendered terms, as mother- or father-land, and also as narrative products;.


288 pages

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released September 3, 2005
ISBN13 9780719068782
Publishers Manchester University Press
Pages 288
Dimensions 164 × 242 × 26 mm   ·   728 g   (Weight (estimated))
Language English  

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