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"In her twelfth year, Kirabo, a young Ugandan girl, confronts a piercing question that has haunted her childhood: who is my mother? Kirabo has been raised by women in the small village of Nattetta-her grandmother, her best friend, and her many aunts, but the absence of her mother follows her like a shadow. Complicating these feelings of abandonment, as Kirabo comes of age she feels the emergence of a mysterious second self, a headstrong and confusing force inside her at odds with her sweet and obedient nature. Seeking answers, Kirabo begins spending afternoons with Nsuuta, a local witch, trading stories and learning not only about this force inside her, but about the woman who birthed her, who she learns is alive but not ready to meet. Nsuuta also explains that Kirabo has a streak of the "first woman"-an independent, original state that has been all but lost to women. Kirabo's journey to reconcile her rebellious origins, alongside her desire to reconnect with her mother and to honor her family's expectations, is rich in the folklore of Uganda and an arresting exploration of what it means to be a modern girl in a world that seems determined to silence women. Makumbi's unforgettable novel is a sweeping testament to the true and lasting connections between history, tradition, family, friends, and the promise of a different future"--Provided by publisher.
Abandoned children --- Abandoned children. --- FICTION / Coming of Age. --- FICTION / Cultural Heritage. --- FICTION / Women. --- Girls --- Girls. --- Self-realization --- Self-realization. --- Women --- Women. --- Uganda.
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"Chronicles the beauty and turmoil of a rapidly changing Cameroon through the story of three generations of women"--
Cameroonians --- FICTION / Cultural Heritage. --- FICTION / Family Life. --- FICTION / Literary. --- FICTION / Women. --- FICTION / World Literature / Africa / West Africa. --- Families --- Women --- Social conditions
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Drawing on narratological and feminist theory, Susan Sniader Lanser explores patterns of narration in a wide range of novels by women of England, France, and the United States from the 1740s to the present. She sheds light on the history of "voice" as a narrative strategy and as a means of attaining social power. She considers the dynamics in personal voice in authors such as Mary Shelley, Charlotte Brontë, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jamaica Kincaid. In writers who attempt a "communal voice"-including Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Gaskell, Joan Chase, and Monique Wittig-she finds innovative strategies that challenge the conventions of Western narrative.
82:396 --- American fiction --- -Authorship --- -English fiction --- -French fiction --- -Narration (Rhetoric) --- Women and literature --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Narrative writing --- Authoring (Authorship) --- Writing (Authorship) --- 82:396 Literatuur en feminisme --- Literatuur en feminisme --- Women authors --- -History and criticism --- Sex differences --- Tolson, M. --- Pynchon, Thomas --- Authorship --- English fiction --- French fiction --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- Literature --- French literature --- English literature --- American literature --- Women authors&delete& --- History and criticism --- History and criticism. --- Sex differences. --- Canon (Literature). --- Theory, etc. --- English fiction - Women authors - History and criticism --- American fiction - Women authors - History and criticism --- French fiction - Women authors - History and criticism --- Authorship - Sex differences --- Women and literature - English-speaking countries --- Women and literature - France --- Literature: history & criticism
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"Four siblings. Two summer houses. One terrible secret. When a dispute over her parents' will grows bitter, Bergljot is drawn back into the orbit of the family she fled twenty years before. Her mother and father have decided to leave two island summer houses to her sisters, disinheriting the two eldest siblings from the most meaningful part of the estate. To outsiders, it is a quarrel about property and favoritism. But Bergljot, who has borne a horrible secret since childhood, understands the gesture as something very different - a final attempt to suppress the truth and a cruel insult to the grievously injured. Will and Testament is a lyrical meditation on trauma and memory, as well as a furious account of a woman's struggle to survive and be believed. Vigdis Hjorth's novel became a controversial literary sensation in Norway and has been translated into twenty languages." --
Divorce --- Divorce. --- Dysfunctional families --- Dysfunctional families. --- FICTION / Absurdist. --- FICTION / Literary. --- FICTION / Women. --- Familles inadaptées --- Family secrets --- Family secrets. --- Forgiveness --- Forgiveness. --- Inheritance and succession --- Inheritance and succession. --- Pardon --- Secrets de famille --- Sisters --- Sisters. --- Successions et héritages --- Sœurs
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Très rapidement, Anne Hébert trouve sa voie, singulière entre toutes celles de notre littérature : le matérialisme. Entendons par là que, récusant l'enseignement religieux, c'est dans les profondeurs du moi que l'auteure cherche la vérité de l'être ; et la plongée en soi révèle essentiellement, comme le disait Freud, le jeu des pulsions. Pulsions de vie et de mort. Toute l'oeuvre est un quête du secret logé dans le coeur charnel, une quête du désir et des risques mortels qu'il fait courir à celui ou celle (François, Catherine, Elisabeth, Julie, Héloïse, Stevens...) qui s'abîme en lui. Cette
Canadian fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism. --- French-Canadian fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism. --- Women and literature -- Canada. --- Romance Literatures --- Languages & Literatures --- French Literature --- Pulsions dans la littérature. --- Pulsion de mort dans la littérature. --- Impulse in literature. --- Death instinct in literature. --- Hébert, Anne, --- Critique et interprétation. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Pulsion de mort dans la litterature. --- Pulsions dans la litterature. --- Hebert, Anne, --- Critique et interpretation. --- Hébert, Anne --- vie --- matérialisme --- discours critique --- mort --- littérature --- vérité
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These nineteen essays introduce the rich and until now largely unexplored tradition of women's experimental fiction in the twentieth century. The writers discussed here range from Gertrude Stein to Christine Brooke-Rose and include, among others, Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, Jane Bowles, Marguerite Young, Eva Figes, Joyce Carol Oates, and Marguerite Duras. "Friedman and Fuchs demonstrate the breadth of their research, first in their introduction to the volume, in which they outline the history of the reception of women's experimental fiction, and analyze and categorize the work not only of the writers to whom essays are devoted but of a number of others, too; and second in an extensive and wonderfully useful bibliography."--Emma Kafalenos, The International Fiction Review "After an introduction that is practically itself a monograph, eighteen essayists (too many of them distinguished to allow an equitable sampling) take up three generations of post-modernists."--American Literature "The editors see this volume as part of the continuing feminist project of the `recovery and foregrounding of women writers.' Friedman and Fuchs's substantive introduction excellently synthesizes the issues presented in the rest of the volume."--Patrick D. Murphy, Studies in the HumanitiesOriginally published in 1989.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism. --- American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism. --- English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism. --- English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism. --- Experimental fiction, English -- History and criticism. --- Women and literature -- English-speaking countries -- History -- 20th century. --- Fiction --- English literature --- anno 1900-1999 --- English fiction --- Experimental fiction, English --- Women and literature --- American fiction --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- History
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This provocative, lively book discusses two of the most significant influences on writing and thinking in the twentieth century: women novelists and feminist theory. It demonstrates, in an accessible but imaginative manner, ways of reading women's novels alongside work by feminist theorists. Each chapter situates a small number of theoretical texts in their intellectual context and then links them with a widely taught novel to produce fresh interpretations. The novels and theorists represent examples of extremely significant, but also pedagogically useful feminist writing this century.
American fiction --- English fiction --- Feminism and literature --- Feminist fiction --- French fiction --- Women and literature --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- History --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Philosophical anthropology --- Sexology --- Human rights --- Depth psychology --- Fiction --- Community organization --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- French literature --- English literature --- American literature --- Literature --- Women authors&delete& --- English fiction - Women authors - History and criticism --- Feminism and literature - History - 20th century --- American fiction - Women authors - History and criticism --- American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism --- English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism --- French fiction - Women authors - History and criticism --- French fiction - 20th century - History and criticism --- Women and literature - History - 20th century --- Feminist fiction - History and criticism --- Feminism --- Homosexuality --- Female homosexuality --- Comparative literature --- Marxism --- Postmodernism --- Psychoanalysis --- Socialist feminism --- Theory --- Second feminist wave --- Black feminism --- Book --- Deconstruction --- First feminist wave
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Narration (Rhetoric) --- Narration (Rhétorique) --- Narrative writing --- Verhaal (Retoriek) --- American fiction --- Roman américain --- Narration --- Women authors --- Bibliography --- History and criticism --- Femmes écrivains --- Bibliographie --- Histoire et critique --- Women and literature --- History --- Roman américain --- Femmes écrivains --- American literature --- 20th century --- Beattie, Ann --- Criticism and interpretation --- Paley, Grace --- Dillard, Annie --- Ozick, Cynthia --- Tyler, Anne --- Walker, Alice --- Kingston, Maxine Hong --- Morrison, Toni --- Piercy, Marge --- American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism --- American fiction - Women authors - History and criticism --- Women and literature - United States - History - 20th century --- American fiction - Women authors - Bibliography --- Narration (Rhetoric) - History - 20th century --- Acqui 2006
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Nach der verdienstvollen und materialreichen Arbeit von Christine Touaillon (1919) erfolgte eine gezielte Hinwendung zum deutschen Roman von Frauen um 1800 erst wieder im Zusammenhang der literaturwissenschaftlichen Frauenforschung seit etwa 1980. Der vorliegende Band ist das Ergebnis einer Zusammenführung derjenigen WissenschaftlerInnen, die in den vergangenen Jahren zu dem thema gearbeitet haben und hier neue Untersuchungen vorlegen.
German fiction --- Women and literature. --- Women novelists, German. --- History and criticism. --- Women authors --- -German fiction --- -Women and literature --- Women novelists, German --- German women novelists --- Literature --- German literature --- History and criticism --- -History and criticism --- Women and literature --- Women authors&delete& --- German fiction - 19th century - History and criticism. --- German fiction - Women authors - History and criticism. --- German fiction - 18th century - History and criticism.
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English fiction --- Women and literature --- Women authors --- History and criticism --- History --- History and criticism. --- History. --- English fiction - Women authors - History and criticism --- English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism --- English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism --- Women and literature - Great Britain - History
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