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100	1		_aWeagel, Deborah Fillerup.
245	1	0	_aWomen and contemporary world literature : _bpower, fragmentation, and metaphor / _cDeborah Weagel.
260			_aNew York : _bPeter Lang, _cc2009.
300			_axii, 129 p. : _bill. ;
490	1		_aAmerican university studies. Series III, comparative literature,
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aSor 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.
650		0	_aWomen in literature.
650		0	_aMetaphor in literature.
650		0	_aPower (Social sciences) in literature.
650		0	_aFeminism in literature.
650		0	_aWomen and literature.
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