Postnational feminisms [electronic resource] : postcolonial identities and cosmopolitanism in the works of Kamala Markandaya, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Ama Ata Aidoo, and Anita Desai / Hena Ahmad.
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TextSeries: American university studies. Series XXVII, Feminist studies ; ; v. 8.Publication details: New York : Peter Lang, c2010.Description: 148 pSubject(s): - Markandaya, Kamala, 1924-2004. Nectar in a sieve
- Dangarembga, Tsitsi. Nervous conditions
- Desai, Anita, 1937- Clear light of day
- Aidoo, Ama Ata, 1942- Changes
- Commonwealth fiction (English) -- Women authors -- History and criticism
- Feminism in literature
- Postcolonialism in literature
- Cosmopolitanism in literature
- Women -- Commonwealth countries -- Identity
- Nationalism in literature
- Feminism and literature -- Commonwealth countries
- PR9084 .A56 2010eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Postcolonial third world feminism and the postnational -- Woman, nation and culture in Kamala Markandaya's Nectar in a sieve -- Resisting the colonial and the patriarchal in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous conditions -- Third world feminism and the nation in Anita Desai's Clear light of day -- Modes of resistance in Ama Ata Aidoo's Changes.
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