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Women and contemporary world literature : power, fragmentation, and metaphor / Deborah Weagel.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: New York : Peter Lang, c2009.Description: xii, 129 p. : illISBN:
  • 9781433104831
  • 1433104830
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809.93522 WEA-W
Contents:
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.
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Book Book Institute of English General Stacks Institute of English 809.93522 WEA-W (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available ENG13876

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.

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