Weagel, Deborah Fillerup.

Women and contemporary world literature power, fragmentation, and metaphor / [electronic resource] : Deborah Weagel. - New York : Peter Lang, c2009. - xii, 129 p. : ill. - American university studies. Series III, Comparative literature, v. 62 0724-1445 ; . - American university studies. Series III, Comparative literature ; v. 62. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz in seventeenth-century New Spain and finding a room of one's own -- The struggle for power in Mariama Bâ's Une si longue lettre -- The power, symbolism, and extension of the mother in Camara Laye's L'enfant noir: a feminine portrait by a masculine author -- Picasso, Rushdie, and the fragmented woman -- The metaphor of quilts and quiltmaking in Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine -- Patchwork and metaphor: Dina's quilt in Rohinton Mistry's A fine balance.


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Women in literature.
Metaphor in literature.
Power (Social sciences) in literature.
Feminism in literature.
Women and literature.


Electronic books.

PN56.5.W64 / W43 2009eb

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