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- Card, Claudia > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Deutscher, Penelope
- Publish Year
- 2003
- Shelfmark
- B5287 - B
- Description
- The essays in this volume examine the major aspects of de Beauvoir's thought, including her views on the role of biology, on sexuality and sexual difference, and on evil: the influence on her work of Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Husserl, and others: and the philosophical significance of her memoirs and fiction.
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Stover, Johnnie M.
- Publish Year
- 2003
- Shelfmark
- B4470 - B
- Thesaurus
- taalgebruik, autobiografieën, zwarte vrouwen, Verenigde Staten, 19e eeuw
- Description
- The author explores the origin and power of black women writers' voices using the personal narratives of 19th-century Americans who were slaves or indentured servants. Displaying aspects of the oral traditions of Yoruba culture in West Africa, these voices took on a subversive tone, a form of expression that Stover describes as the “mother tongue” and argues is completely different from literary forms employed by white men or women or black men. .Stover maintains that the mother tongue--a system of linguistic and physical techniques--developed in response to black women's struggles to find outlets for expression in a white male dominated society. The African American mother tongue is not a result of biology but grew out of the need of black women to resist oppression. It is a combination of words, rhythms, sounds, and silences that black women encoded with veiled meanings Stover proposes that the linguistic practices are a balance of African, European, and African American communicative techniques and include secrets, silences, hesitations, whispers, feigned misunderstanding, lying, masking, mumbling, sass, invective, impudence, and dissembling.. .Stover focuses on four texts that employ the mother tongue and engage sociopolitical issues of the 19th century--Harriet Wilson's Our Nig, Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Elizabeth Keckley's Behind the Scenes, and Susie King Taylor's Reminiscences of My Life in Camp. .
women writing house, home, and history in late colonial India
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Burton, Antoinette
- Publish Year
- 2003
- Shelfmark
- B4854 - B
- Thesaurus
- kolonialisme, autobiografieën, biografieën, schrijvers, romans, India, 20e eeuw
- Description
- Dwelling in the archive examines how women wrote about the experience of colonialism, partition, and nation-building in memoirs, fictions, and histories. Burton analyses the writings of Janaki Majumdar, daughter of the first president of the Indian National Congress who chronicled her family's transnational history: Cornelia Sorabji, a lawyer who wrote about secluded women in the home: and Attia Hosain, a novelist who wrote about the trauma of partition through a young girl's understandings of her family home. Burton argues for the expansion of what is considered archival material, showing how political events in modern India are closely intertwined with women's experiences of the physical spaces of houses and memories of home.
women, writing, and solitude
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Malin, Jo > (ed.)
- Creator
- Boynton, Victoria > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Amato, Joe
- Publish Year
- 2003
- Shelfmark
- B4211 - B
- Thesaurus
- schrijvers, autobiografieën, psychologie, zwarte schrijvers, bundel
- Description
- The contibutors reveal the manyu sides of solitude of women authors: loneliness, solitary confinement, creative solitude, regeneration. They also describe how to create and nurture that solitude. Moving from gender and literary theory to house-woning, this book is about the landscape and habilitation of the self. The book begins with a discussion of solitude as a key theme in the works of a variety of writers, including Margaret Atwood, May Sarton, Virginia Woolf, Marguerite Duras, Ursula Le Guin, and Zora Neale Hurston, and then moves on to examine actual solitary spaces in which women writers work. The book concludes with stories of modern women asserting their right to a space of their own.
Shahrazad tells her story
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Golley, Nawar Al-Hassan
- Publish Year
- 2003
- Shelfmark
- B4852 - B
- Thesaurus
- autobiografieën, vrouwbeelden, Arabische wereld
- Description
- This book tackles questions about how women and men represent themselves in different ways through a close examination of Arab women's autobiographical writings. Nawar Al-Hassan Golley applies a variety of western critical theories, including Marxism, colonial discourse, feminism, and narrative theory, to the autobiographies of Huda Shaarawi, Fadwa Tuqan, Nawal el-Saadawi, and others, to demonstrate what these critical methodologies can reveal about Arab women's writing. At the same time, she also investigates these theories against the chosen texts to see how adequate or appropriate these models are for analysing texts from other cultures. This two-fold investigation sheds important new light on how the writers or editors of Arab women's autobiographies have written, documented, presented, and organized their texts.
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- Sample, Maxine > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Stec, Loretta
- Publish Year
- 2003
- Shelfmark
- B5054 - B
- Thesaurus
- zwarte romans, zwarte schrijvers, apartheid, vluchtelingen, vrouwbeelden, autobiografieën, Zuid-Afrika, bundel
- Description
- Essays on the fictional and autobiographical writings of Bessie Emery Head, considered one of the leading black writers of South Africa. The writings of more than fifteen years are shaped by her experience of exile from South African apartheid.
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