Rites of Passage in Postcolonial Women's WritingPauline Dodgson-Katiyo, Gina Wisker Rodopi, 2010 - 307 pages This volume brings a variety of new approaches and contexts to modern and contemporary women's writing. Contributors include both new and well-established scholars from Europe, Australia, the USA, and the Caribbean. Their essays draw on, adapt, and challenge anthropological perspectives on rites of passage derived from the work of Arnold van Gennep and Victor Turner. Collectively, the essays suggest that women's writing and women's experiences from diverse cultures go beyond any straightforward notion of a threefold structure of separation, transition, and incorporation. Some essays include discussion of traditional rites of passage such as birth, motherhood, marriage, death, and bereavement; others are interested in exploring less traditional, more fluid, and/or problematic rites such as abortion, living with HIV/AIDS, and coming into political consciousness. Contributors seek ways of linking writing on rites of passage to feminist, postcolonial, and psychoanalytic theories which foreground margins, borders, and the outsider. The three opening essays explore the work of the Zimbabwean writer Yvonne Vera, whose groundbreaking work explored taboo subjects such as infanticide and incest. A wide range of other essays focus on writers from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe, including Jean Rhys, Bharati Mukherjee, Arundhati Roy, Jean Arasanayagam, Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl, and Eva Sallis. Rites of Passage in Postcolonial Women's Writing will be of interest to scholars working in the fields of postcolonial and modern and contemporary women's writing, and to students on literature and women's studies courses who want to study women's writing from a cross-cultural perspective and from different theoretical positions. Contributors: Lizzy Attree, Lopamudra Basu, Katrin Berndt, Gay Breyley, Helen Cousins, Tanya Dalziell, Alexandra Dumitrescu, Anna Gething, Jessica Gildersleeve, Sharanya Jayawickrama, Kimberley M. Jew, Polina Mackay, Alexandra W. Schultheis, Rachel Slater, Irene Visser. |
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V | 41 |
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X | 149 |
XII | 187 |
XIII | 207 |
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XV | 245 |
XVI | 267 |
XVII | 283 |
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abject abortion Adivasi adolescence African women Arasanayagam Arnold van Gennep Australia Bharati Mukherjee body Butterfly Burning characters child colonial contemporary Crawford cultural death Dhowli Emmalehua essay Estha experience father female femininity Feminism feminist fiction Further page references gender Gennep grief Harare Hawai‘i Hawaiian HIV/AIDS husband identity India indigenous Jasmine Jean Arasanayagam Judith Butler Ka‘ahumanu Kambili Kate Grenville Kneubuhl Kristeva Langford Ginibi Lian Lilian liminal Literature lives London loss Love to Town Lucy Lucy’s Mahasweta Devi main text marriage Mazvita Melancholia metamodern mother motherhood mourning Mukherjee Mukherjee’s Mori narrative narrator Nonceba novel one’s Ophelia pain patriarchal Phephelaphi Phi–Van political postcolonial pregnancy prostitution protagonist Rahel rape relationship representation Rhys Rhys’s rites of passage ritual role Routledge Roy’s Sanichari Sasha sexual social society story symbolic Thenjiwe tion traditional transformation Trenton NJ Vera’s violence Westerhof’s woman Women’s Writing York Yvonne Yvonne Vera Zimbabwe Zimbabwean