Motherlands : Black women's writing from Africa, the Caribbean, and South Asia, Susheila Nasta, editor

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Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-357) and index

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Stories of women and mothers : gender and nationalism in the early fiction of Flora Nwapa -- Untold story and the retold story : intertextuality in post-colonial women's fiction -- Searching voices : Anita Desai's Clear light of day and Nayantara Sahgal's Rich like us -- "Something ancestral recaptured" : spirit possession as trope in selected feminist fictions of the African diaspora -- Rebellious women : fictional biographies : Nawal el Sa'adawi's Woman at point zero and Mariama Bä's So long a letter -- "Dangerous knowledge" and the poetics of survival : a reading of Our sister killjoy and A Question of power -- Mothers or sisters? identity, discourse and audience in the writing of Ama Ata Aidoo and Mariama Bä -- Search for freedom in Indian women's writing -- "Heaven lies beneath her feet"? : mother figures in selected Indo-Anglian novels -- Motherhood as a metaphor for creativity in three African women's novels : Flora Nwapa, Rebeka Njau and Bessie Head -- "Bloodstream of our inheritance" : female identity and the Caribbean mothers' land -- Mothertongue voices in the writing of Olive Senior and Lorna Goodison
Family connections : mother and mother country in the fiction of Jean Rhys and Jamaica Kincaid -- Absent mother(land)s : Joan Riley's fiction -- Adopted motherlands : the novels of Marjorie Macgoye and Bessie Head -- Mother/lands : self and separation in the work of Buchi Emecheta, Bessie Head and Jean Rhys

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