The Pull of Postcolonial Nationhood : Gender and Migration in Francophone African Literatures.
While the male-dominated Francophone African migrant literary tradition includes women writers, there is no study that attends to this subgroup of writers. The Pull of Postcolonial Nationhood: Gender and Migration in Francophone African Literaturespioneers the study of these writers as a category th...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group,
2010
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| Summary: | While the male-dominated Francophone African migrant literary tradition includes women writers, there is no study that attends to this subgroup of writers. The Pull of Postcolonial Nationhood: Gender and Migration in Francophone African Literaturespioneers the study of these writers as a category through an examination of three major women who exemplify the Francophone African female migrant literary tradition: Ken Bugul, Calixthe Beyala, and Fatou Diome. By studying these women together, Ayo A. Coly innovatively introduces gender into prevailing theories of Francophone African migrant literat. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (176 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780739145135 0739145134 1282713213 9781282713215 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
