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Product Description: Women Taking Risks in Contemporary Autobiographical Narratives explores the nature and effects of risk in self-narrative representations of life events, and is an early step towards confronting the dearth of analysis on this subject...read more
By Anna Rocca (editor)

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9781443849791 | Cambridge Scholars Pub, October 1, 2013, cover price $75.95 | About this edition: Women Taking Risks in Contemporary Autobiographical Narratives explores the nature and effects of risk in self-narrative representations of life events, and is an early step towards confronting the dearth of analysis on this subject.

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Product Description: Critical Conditions: Reading Illness and Disability in Francophone African and Caribbean Women’s Writing, represents a novel approach not only to postcolonial Francophone literature but to literary and cultural studies in general...read more

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9780739151143 | 1 edition (Lexington Books, November 17, 2011), cover price $80.00 | About this edition: Critical Conditions: Reading Illness and Disability in Francophone African and Caribbean Women’s Writing, represents a novel approach not only to postcolonial Francophone literature but to literary and cultural studies in general.

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Product Description: African and Caribbean peoples share a history dominated by the violent disruptions of slavery and colonialism. While much has been said about these “geographies of pain,” violence in the private sphere, particularly gendered violence, receives little attention...read more

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9780803211025, titled "Violence in Francophone African & Caribbean Women's Literature" | Univ of Nebraska Pr, December 1, 2009, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: African and Caribbean peoples share a history dominated by the violent disruptions of slavery and colonialism.

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Product Description: Female characters who suffer madness and insanity are strikingly prominent in novels by women writers of Africa and the Caribbean. To find out why there are so many 'suffocated hearts and tortured souls' in this literature, Valerie Orlando, who has long studied Francophone text and culture, here closely reads the work of Aminata Sow Fall, Mariama B%, Myrian Warner-Vieyra, and Simone Schwarz-Bart, among others...read more

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9780739105627 | Lexington Books, March 1, 2003, cover price $91.00 | About this edition: Female characters who suffer madness and insanity are strikingly prominent in novels by women writers of Africa and the Caribbean.

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9780739105634 | Lexington Books, February 1, 2003, cover price $32.99 | About this edition: Female characters who suffer madness and insanity are strikingly prominent in novels by women writers of Africa and the Caribbean.

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9780742521544 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, August 1, 2002, cover price $70.00

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9780742521551 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, December 1, 2002, cover price $23.95

This text is an extensive account of African literature from a feminist perspective. The book outlines the features of an emerging female tradition in African fiction and examines the work of: Grace Ogot, Flora Nwapa, Buchi Emecheta and Mariama Ba. In addition, the author provides challenging readings of canonical male authors such as Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiongo'o and Wole Soyinka.

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9780415097703 | Routledge, April 1, 1994, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: This text is an extensive account of African literature from a feminist perspective.

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9780415097710 | Routledge, May 1, 1994, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: The influence of colonialism and race on the development of African literature has been the subject of a number of studies.

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9780203202975 | Routledge, March 11, 2002, cover price $43.95

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Harrow's provocative book introduces a psychoanalytic dimension to the study of African women's writing. In so doing, he opens up relatively uncharted terrain in African literary studies. Comprehensive, nuanced, occasionally lyrical, the book covers an impressive range of hitherto neglected francophone novels that are examined alongside canonical anglophone texts. The author places these texts in their colonial and postcolonial contexts, developing upon, and linking, structuralist theories of colonialism and patriarchy. This study offers a radical new position for those scholars who have long sought alternatives to the liberal humanist bias pervading many studies of African women's writing.Students often struggle with the models employed by feminist and postcolonial theorists such as Judith Butler and Homi Bhabha. The clarity with which Harrow explains the positions of such theorists makes his book an essential companion to, and commentary upon, their publications. Kenneth Harrow's study will be of interest not only to African literature specialists, but also to non-literary scholars concerned with questions about feminism, gender construction, colonialism, psychoanalysis, and postcolonial theory. (view table of contents)

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9780325070254 | Heinemann, November 16, 2001, cover price $102.38

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9780325070247 | Heinemann, November 13, 2001, cover price $46.00 | About this edition: Harrow's provocative book introduces a psychoanalytic dimension to the study of African women's writing.

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