Women and contemporary world literature
Subtitle: power, fragmentation, and metaphor
By: Deborah Weagel.
Series: American university studies III: Comparative literature -- v. 62
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781433104831
Subjects: Women in literature; Metaphor in literature; Power (Social sciences) in literature; Feminism in literature; Women and literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz in seventeenth-century New Spain and finding a room of one's own; title: The struggle for power in Mariama Bâ's Une si longue lettre; title: The power, symbolism, and extension of the mother in Camara Laye's l'Enfant noir: a feminine portrait by a masculine author; title: Picasso, Rushdie, and the fragmented woman; title: The metaphor of quilts and quiltmaking in Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine; title: Patchwork and metaphor: Dina's quilt in Rohinton Mistry's A fine balance.