Postnational feminisms
Subtitle: postcolonial identities and cosmopolitanism in the works of Kamala Markandaya, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Ama Ata Aidoo, and Anita Desai
By: Hena Ahmad.
Series: American university studies XXVII: feminist studies -- v. 8
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780820452470
Subjects: Markandaya, Kamala, -- 1924-; Dangarembga, Tsitsi; Desai, Anita, -- 1937-; Aidoo, Ama Ata, -- 1942-; Commonwealth fiction (English) -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Feminism in literature; Postcolonialism in literature; Cosmopolitanism in literature; Women -- Commonwealth countries -- Identity; Nationalism in literature; Feminism and literature -- Commonwealth countries
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Postcolonial third world feminism and the postnational; title: Woman, nation and culture in Kamala Markandaya's Nectar in a sieve; title: Resisting the colonial and the patriarchal in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous conditions; title: Third world feminism and the nation in Anita Desai's Clear light of day; title: Modes of resistance in Ama Ata Aidoo's Changes.