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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Main Author: Coly, Ayo A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, 2010
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505 0 |a Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: KEN BUGUL; Chapter 1: The (Non- )Place of the Daughter of the Postcolonial House; Chapter 2: No Place Like the Non-Place; PART II: CALIXTHE BEYALA; Chapter 3: Aborted Postnationalism?; Chapter 4: (Un)Writing France as Home; Chapter 5: From African guest to Afro-French Hostess; PART III: FATOU DIOME; Chapter 6: Globalization and the Revival of the Anticolonial and Nationalist Narrative of Home; Chapter 7: Bounded Homelessness as a Strategy; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; About the Author. 
520 |a 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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