From the Margins of Empire - Christina Stead, Doris Lessing, Nadine Gordimer

Klappentext The author shows how the three writers' different national identities are inscribed in their fiction. The invented, hybrid character of nationality is, she maintains, a constant throughout. Locating the writings of Stead, Lessing and Gordimer in the national cultures that produced and read them, she considers the questions they raise about the roles that whites, especially white women, can play in the new political and cultural order. Zusammenfassung Situated at the intersection of the colonial and the postcolonial, the modern and the postmodern, the novelists Christina Stead, Doris Lessing, and Nadine Gordimer all bear witness to this century's global transformations. From the Margins of Empire...

Product details

• Authors: Louise Yelin
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.10.1998
• EAN: 9780801485053
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-8505-3
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Reading Women Writing; Reading Women Writing
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies