Women and contemporary world literature : power, fragmentation, and metaphor /
Weagel, Deborah Fillerup.
Women and contemporary world literature : power, fragmentation, and metaphor / Deborah Weagel. - New York : Peter Lang, c2009. - xii, 129 p. : ill. ; - American university studies. Series III, comparative literature, .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz in seventeenth-century New Spain and finding a room of one's own -- The struggle for power in Mariama Bâ's Une si longue lettre -- The power, symbolism, and extension of the mother in Camara Laye's L'enfant noir: a feminine portrait by a masculine author -- Picasso, Rushdie, and the fragmented woman -- The metaphor of quilts and quiltmaking in Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine -- Patchwork and metaphor: Dina's quilt in Rohinton Mistry's A fine balance.
9781433104831 1433104830
Women in literature.
Metaphor in literature.
Power (Social sciences) in literature.
Feminism in literature.
Women and literature.
809.93522 WEA-W
Women and contemporary world literature : power, fragmentation, and metaphor / Deborah Weagel. - New York : Peter Lang, c2009. - xii, 129 p. : ill. ; - American university studies. Series III, comparative literature, .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz in seventeenth-century New Spain and finding a room of one's own -- The struggle for power in Mariama Bâ's Une si longue lettre -- The power, symbolism, and extension of the mother in Camara Laye's L'enfant noir: a feminine portrait by a masculine author -- Picasso, Rushdie, and the fragmented woman -- The metaphor of quilts and quiltmaking in Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine -- Patchwork and metaphor: Dina's quilt in Rohinton Mistry's A fine balance.
9781433104831 1433104830
Women in literature.
Metaphor in literature.
Power (Social sciences) in literature.
Feminism in literature.
Women and literature.
809.93522 WEA-W