TY  - BOOK
AU  - Boehmer,Elleke
TI  - Stories of women: gender and narrative in the postcolonial nation 
SN  - 9780719068799
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Manchester
PB  - Manchester University Press
KW  - Sex role in literature
KW  - Postcolonialism in literature
KW  - Women in literature
KW  - Mujeres en la literatura
N1  - Originally published: 2005; Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Theorising the en-gendered nation: Motherlands, mothers and nationalist sons 2. 'The master's dance to the master's voice': Revolutionary nationalism and women's representation in Ngugi wa Thiong'o 3. Of goddesses and stories: Gender and a new politics in Achebe 4. The hero's story: The male leader's autobiography and the syntax of postcolonial nationalism 5. Stories of women and mothers: Gender and nationalism in the early fiction of Flora Nwapa 6. Daughters of the house: The adolescent girl and the nation 7. Transfiguring: colonial body into postcolonial narrative 8. The nation as metaphor: Ben Okri, Chenjerai Hove, Dambudzo Marechera 9. East is East: where postcolonialism is neo-orientalist - the cases of Sarojini Naidu and Arundhati Roy 10. Tropes of yearning and dissent: The inflection of desire in Yvonne Vera and Tsitsi Dangarembga 11. Beside the West: postcolonial women writers in a transnational frame 12. Conclusion: Defining the nation differently
ER  -