Postcolonial Representations

by Françoise Lionnet

Book Overview

Passionate allegiances to competing theoretical camps have stifled dialogue among today's literary critics, asserts Fran oise Lionnet. Discussing a number of postcolonial narratives by women from a variety of ethnic and cultural backgrounds, she offers a comparative feminist approach that can provide common ground for debates on such issues as multiculturalism, universalism, and relativism. Lionnet uses the concept of m tissage , or cultural mixing,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801481805
• ISBN13: 9780801481802
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher