Indian Statistical Institute Library, Kolkata

820.9/9287

Motherlands : Black women's writing from Africa, the Caribbean, and South Asia / Susheila Nasta, editor. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 1992.
xxx, 366 p. ; 21 cm. Content notes : Stories of women and mothers : gender and nationalism in the early fiction of Flora Nwapa -- Untold story and the retold story : intertextuality in post-colonial women's fiction -- Searching voices : Anita Desai's Clear light of day and Nayantara Sahgal's Rich like us -- "Something ancestral recaptured" : spirit possession as trope in selected feminist fictions of the African diaspora -- Rebellious women : fictional biographies : Nawal el Sa'adawi's Woman at point zero and Mariama Bä's So long a letter -- "Dangerous knowledge" and the poetics of survival : a reading of Our sister killjoy and A Question of power -- Mothers or sisters? identity, discourse and audience in the writing of Ama Ata Aidoo and Mariama Bä -- Search for freedom in Indian women's writing -- "Heaven lies beneath her feet"? : mother figures in selected Indo-Anglian novels -- Motherhood as a metaphor for creativity in three African women's novels : Flora Nwapa, Rebeka Njau and Bessie Head -- "Bloodstream of our inheritance" : female identity and the Caribbean mothers' land -- Mothertongue voices in the writing of Olive Senior and Lorna Goodison. Family connections : mother and mother country in the fiction of Jean Rhys and Jamaica Kincaid -- Absent mother(land)s : Joan Riley's fiction -- Adopted motherlands : the novels of Marjorie Macgoye and Bessie Head -- Mother/lands : self and separation in the work of Buchi Emecheta, Bessie Head and Jean Rhys. 0813517818 : $36.00 9780813517810 0813517826 (pbk.) : $12.95 9780813517827 (pbk.) * Commonwealth * African literature (English) - Women authors - History and criticism. Caribbean literature (English) - Women authors - History and criticism. West Indian literature (English) - Women authors - History and criticism. South Asian literature (English) - History and criticism. English literature - Black authors - History and criticism. Women and literature - English-speaking countries. Women, Black, in literature. Blacks in literature. Literatura caribeña (Inglesa) - Mujeres como autoras - Historia y crítica Literatura inglesa - Autores sudasiáticos - Historia y crítica Literatura inglesa - Autores negros - Historia y crítica Mujeres negras - Vida intelectual Mujeres negras en la literatura Negros en la literatura Littérature africaine (anglaise) - Histoire et critique. Littérature antillaise (anglaise) - Histoire et critique. Littérature sud-asiatique - Histoire et critique. Littérature anglaise - Auteurs noirs - Histoire et critique. Noires - Vie intellectuelle. Écrits de femmes africains (anglais) - Histoire et critique. Écrits de femmes antillais (anglais) - Histoire et critique. Noires dans la littérature. Noirs dans la littérature. Frauenliteratur Aufsatzsammlung * Schwarzafrika Englisch Westindien Schwarze Südasien * Nasta, Susheila. * Title