Questions of Identity and Community
Sreemati Mukherjee
Broschiertes Buch

Questions of Identity and Community

Women, language and literature within African and African-American postcolonial contexts

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This book analyzes the various interfaces between language, culture, gender(woman), history and writing in Senegalese writer Mariama Bâ s Une si longue lettre (So Long A Letter), South African(Botswana) writer Bessie Head s A Question of Power, and Toni Morrison s Pulitzer winning book Beloved. Postcolonial or post-slavery contexts denying power and legitimacy to women through the written word frame all three contexts. Ramatoulaye (Bâ s heroine) breaks the Muslim convention of mirasse to speak out against a patriarchal society which denies women self-legitimacy through language. Bessie Head ...