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...

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Published in:	Third World Quarterly Vol. 26; no. 3; pp. 497 - 509
Main Author:	Decaires Narain, Denise
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Apr2005
Subjects:	Authors Women in literature Rhys, Jean Kincaid, Jamaica, 1946- Djebar, Assia, 1936-2015 Novelists
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