Post-Colonial and African American Women's Writing

This accessible and unusually wide-ranging book is essential reading for anyone interested in postcolonial and African American women''s writing. It provides a valuable gender and culture inflected critical introduction to well established women writers: Toni Morrison Alice Walker Margaret Atwood Suniti Namjoshi Bessie Head and others from the U.S.A. India Africa Britain Australia New Zealand and introduces emergent writers from South East Asia Cyprus and Oceania. Engaging with and clarifying contested critical areas of feminism and the postcolonial; exploring historical background and cultural context economic political and psychoanalytic influences on gendered experience it provides a cohesive discussion of key issues such as cultural and gendered identity motherhood mothertongue language relationships women''s economic constraints and sexual politics.