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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, 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. 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. This new paperback edition will be of interest to readers and researchers of postcolonial, international and women's writing; of nation theory, colonial history and historiography; of Indian, African, migrant and diasporic literatures, and is likely to prove a landmark study in the field.An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.
Elleke Boehmer is Hildred Carlile Professor in English at Royal Holloway, University of London
AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Theorising the en-gendered nation: Motherlands, mothers and nationalist sons2. 'The master's dance to the master's voice': Revolutionary nationalism and women's representation in Ngugi wa Thiong'o3. Of goddesses and stories: Gender and a new politics in Achebe4. The hero's story: The male leader's autobiography and the syntax of postcolonial nationalism5. Stories of women and mothers: Gender and nationalism in the early fiction of Flora Nwapa6. Daughters of the house: The adolescent girl and the nation7. Transfiguring: colonial body into postcolonial narrative8. The nation as metaphor: Ben Okri, Chenjerai Hove, Dambudzo Marechera9. East is East: where postcolonialism is neo-orientalist - the cases of Sarojini Naidu and Arundhati Roy10. Tropes of yearning and dissent: The inflection of desire in Yvonne Vera and Tsitsi Dangarembga11. Beside the West: postcolonial women writers in a transnational frame12. Conclusion: Defining the nation differently
Elleke Boehmer, University of Oxford) Boehmer, Elleke (Professor of World Literature in English, Professor of World Literature in English, Elleke (Professor of World L... Boehmer
Elleke Boehmer, University of Oxford) Boehmer, Elleke (Professor of World Literature in English, Professor of World Literature in English, Elleke (Professor of World L... Boehmer
Elleke Boehmer, Rosinka Chaudhuri, UK) Boehmer, Elleke (University of Oxford, India) Chaudhuri, Rosinka (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta