Weagel, Deborah Fillerup. <br/><br/>
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, .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781433104831  1433104830 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Women in literature.<br/>Metaphor in literature.<br/>Power (Social sciences) in literature.<br/>Feminism in literature.<br/>Women and literature.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>809.93522 WEA-W