Writing ‘Home’: mediating between ‘the local’ and ‘the literary’ in a selection of postcolonial women's texts.
This paper will focus on a selection of texts by postcolonial women writers, including Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid, Adhaf Soueif and Assia Djebar to explore the ways that the worlds of ‘the oral’ and ‘the scribal’ intersect and/or collide in their fictions. Many Caribbean writers and/or critics have...
| Publicado en: | Third World Quarterly Vol. 26; no. 3; pp. 497 - 509 |
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Apr2005
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