From the margins of empire : Christina Stead, Doris Lessing, Nadine Gordimer
by
Yelin, Louise.
Title
:
From the margins of empire : Christina Stead, Doris Lessing, Nadine Gordimer
Author
:
Yelin, Louise.
ISBN
:
9780801435034
9780801485053
Personal Author
:
Yelin, Louise.
Publication Information
:
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1998.
Physical Description
:
ix, 197 p. ; 24 cm.
Series
:
Reading women writing
Series Title
:
Reading women writing
Contents
:
Introduction: From the Margins of Empire -- Pt. I. Christina Stead: Buffoon Odyssey? 1. Unsettling Australia: The Man Who Loved Children as National Family Romance. 2. "Buffoon Odyssey"? For Love Alone and the Writing of Exile -- Pt. II. Doris Lessing: In Pursuit of the English. 3. The Englishing of Doris Lessing. 4. "Integrated with British Life at Its Roots": The Construction of British Identity in The Golden Notebook. 5. Reading Doris Lessing with Margaret Thatcher: The Good Terrorist, The Fifth Child, and England in the 1980s -- Pt. III. Nadine Gordimer: Literature and Politics in South Africa. 6. European Genealogies and South African Identity in Burger's Daughter. 7. Decolonizing the Novel: A Sport of Nature as Postcolonial Picaresque. 8. Beyond Identity: The Poetics of Nonracialism and the Politics of Cultural Translation in My Son's Story -- Conclusion: Writing beyond the Margins.
Personal Subject
:
Lessing, Doris May, 1919--Political and social views.
Stead, Christina, 1902-1983-Political and social views.
Gordimer, Nadine-Political and social views.
Subject Term
:
Commonwealth literature (English) -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Women and literature -- English-speaking countries -- History -- 20th century.
National characteristics, British, in literature.
Decolonization in literature.
Imperialism in literature.
Geographic Term
:
Great Britain -- In literature.
South Africa -- In literature.
Australia -- In literature.
| Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | Copy |
|---|
| IIEMSA | General Books | 33168015728690 | 820.99287 F43Y 1998 | 1 |