Mariama Ba, Rigoberta Menchu, and Postcolonial Feminism

Laura Charlotte Kempen (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

166 Seiten

2001
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8204-4976-0 (ISBN)

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This book investigates the convergence of feminist literary projects in the Latin American and West African contexts and demonstrates how the authors examined here employ similar writing strategies to (re)constitute feminine subjects. Their writing strives to rid literature, and thus international psyches, of reductive stereotypes of subaltern women, while projecting more complex, active female images. In portraying the horrific victimization that they and their people have experienced, these writers claim a position of authorial power and wield their tragedies, along with their words, as a weapon against imperial, patriarchal, and neocolonial tyranny. Despite their vast socioeconomic and cultural differences, these women share much common ground, where they cultivate feminine words of deliverance.

The Author: Laura Charlotte Kempen received her M.A. in French at Stanford University and her Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Washington. She has presented at numerous academic conferences and has taught at the University of Washington campuses at Seattle and Bothell. Dr. Kempen currently holds a tenured position in French, Spanish, and literature at Seattle Central Community College.

Reihe/Serie	Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures ; 97
Reihe/Serie	Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures ; 97
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 230 mm
Gewicht	380 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Romanistik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-8204-4976-8 / 0820449768
ISBN-13	978-0-8204-4976-0 / 9780820449760
Zustand	Neuware