From the margins of empire : Christina Stead, Doris Lessing, Nadine Gordimer / Louise Yelin
- Bib ID:
- 157907
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Yelin, Louise
- Description:
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- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1998
- ix, 197 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 080143503X (alkaline paper) (cased)
- 0801485053 (alkaline paper) (paperback)
- Series:
- Reading women writing.
- Full contents:
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- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-191) and index.
- Subject:
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- Lessing, Doris May, 1919- -- Political and social views
- Stead, Christina, 1902-1983 -- Political and social views
- Gordimer, Nadine -- Political and social views
- 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
- Great Britain -- In literature
- South Africa -- In literature
- Australia -- In literature
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- Publication date:
- 1998
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