TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nasta,Susheila
TI  - Motherlands: Black women's writing from Africa, the Caribbean, and South Asia 
SN  - 0813517818 :
AV  - PR9340.5 .M67 1992
U1  - 820.9/9287 20
PY  - 1992///
CY  - New Brunswick, N.J.
PB  - Rutgers University Press
KW  - Commonwealth
KW  - swd
KW  - African literature (English)
KW  - Women authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Caribbean literature (English)
KW  - West Indian literature (English)
KW  - South Asian literature (English)
KW  - English literature
KW  - Black authors
KW  - Women and literature
KW  - English-speaking countries
KW  - Women, Black, in literature
KW  - Blacks in literature
KW  - Literatura caribeña (Inglesa)
KW  - Mujeres como autoras
KW  - Historia y crítica
KW  - Literatura inglesa
KW  - Autores sudasiáticos
KW  - Autores negros
KW  - Mujeres negras
KW  - Vida intelectual
KW  - Mujeres negras en la literatura
KW  - Negros en la literatura
KW  - Littérature africaine (anglaise)
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Littérature antillaise (anglaise)
KW  - Littérature sud-asiatique
KW  - Littérature anglaise
KW  - Auteurs noirs
KW  - Noires
KW  - Vie intellectuelle
KW  - Écrits de femmes africains (anglais)
KW  - Écrits de femmes antillais (anglais)
KW  - Noires dans la littérature
KW  - Noirs dans la littérature
KW  - Frauenliteratur
KW  - Aufsatzsammlung
KW  - Schwarzafrika
KW  - Englisch
KW  - Westindien
KW  - Schwarze
KW  - Südasien
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-357) and index; 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
UR  - http://www.archive.org/details/motherlandsblack00nast
UR  - http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL1550406M
ER  -