Rites of Passage in Postcolonial Women's Writing
This volume brings a variety of new approaches and contexts to modern and contemporary women's writing. Contributors include both new and well-established scholars from Europe, Australia, the USA, and the Caribbean. Their essays draw on, adapt, and challenge anthropological perspectives on rites of passage derived from the work of Arnold van Gennep and Victor Turner. Collectively, the essays suggest that women's writing and women's experiences from diverse cultures go beyond any straightforward notion of a threefold structure of separation, transition, and incorporation. Some essays include discussion of traditional rites of passage such as…
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Weitere Autoren: Wisker, Gina (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-90-420-2935-4
- EAN: 9789042029354
- Produktnummer: 8424461
- Verlag: Brill Academic Pub
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 307 S.
- Masse: H21.1 cm x B13.9 cm x D2.5 cm 439 g
- Reihenbandnummer: 123
- Gewicht: 439
Über den Autor
Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo is Head of Humanities at Sheffield Hallam University. Her research focus is on African literature (particularly Zimbabwean), contemporary women's writing, and postcolonial cinemas. Gina Wisker is Professor of Higher Education and Contemporary Literature at the University of Brighton, where she teaches literature, is the head of the centre for learning and teaching, and pursues her research interests in postcolonial women's writing.
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