Women and contemporary world literature [electronic resource] : power, fragmentation, and metaphor / Deborah Weagel.

By: Contributor(s): Series: American university studies. Series III, Comparative literature ; ; v. 62.Publication details: New York : Peter Lang, c2009.Description: xii, 129 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 809/.933522 22
LOC classification:
  • PN56.5.W64 W43 2009eb
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Contents:
Sor Juana In�es de la Cruz in seventeenth-century New Spain and finding a room of one's own -- The struggle for power in Mariama B�a'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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sor Juana In�es de la Cruz in seventeenth-century New Spain and finding a room of one's own -- The struggle for power in Mariama B�a'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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