Post-Colonial and African American Women's Writing

Post-Colonial and African American Women's Writing

Author: Gina Wisker

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-03-04

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 0333985249

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This accessible and unusually wide-ranging book is essential reading for anyone interested in postcolonial and African American women's writing. It provides a valuable gender and culture inflected critical introduction to well established women writers: Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Margaret Atwood, Suniti Namjoshi, Bessie Head, and others from the U.S.A., India, Africa, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and introduces emergent writers from South East Asia, Cyprus and Oceania. Engaging with and clarifying contested critical areas of feminism and the postcolonial; exploring historical background and cultural context, economic, political, and psychoanalytic influences on gendered experience, it provides a cohesive discussion of key issues such as cultural and gendered identity, motherhood, mothertongue, language, relationships, women's economic constraints and sexual politics.


Personality in Literature

Personality in Literature

Author: Rolfe Arnold Scott-James

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2023-07-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781022061422

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Explore the fascinating relationship between personality and literature with this insightful book by renowned critic Rolfe Arnold Scott-James. Drawing from a wide range of literary examples, from Shakespeare to Joyce, this book offers a thought-provoking analysis of how personality shapes the way we interpret and engage with literature. A must-read for anyone interested in the intersection of psychology and literature. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.