Africa writes back to self : metafiction, gender, sexuality / Evan Maina Mwangi
- Author
- Mwangi, Evan
- Published
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2009]
- Copyright Date
- ©2009
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xiv, 346 pages)
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- Contents
- Introduction : writing back to self -- Genealogies and functions of self-reflexive fiction -- (En)countering sex in the nationalist canon -- Potentials and pitfalls of national language literatures -- Orature and deconstructed folklore -- Politicized palimpsests and gendered intertexts -- Painted metaphors : the gendered deployment of visual arts -- Refiguring (out) queer sexualities -- Gendered theoretical recalibrations.
- Subject(s)
- African fiction (English)—History and criticism
- Self in literature
- Self-perception in literature
- Sex role in literature
- Sex in literature
- Roman africain (anglais)—Histoire et critique
- Moi (Psychologie) dans la littérature
- Perception de soi dans la littérature
- Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature
- Sexualité dans la littérature
- LITERARY CRITICISM—European—English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- African fiction (English)
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9781441620545 (electronic bk.)
1441620540 (electronic bk.)
143842681X (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9781438426815 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9781438426976 - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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