Stories of Women

Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation

• Author(s): Elleke Boehmer,
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Pages: 239
• ISBN_10: 0719068789
  ISBN_13: 9780719068782
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / Feminist , Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Women , Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Gender Identity ,

Description:... Elleke Boehmer's work on the crucial intersections between independence, nationalism and gender has already proved canonical in the field. This book combines her keynote essays on the mother figure and the postcolonial nation, with incisive new work on male autobiography, "daughter" writers, the colonial body, the trauma of the post-colony, and the nation in a transnational context.