Stories of Women: Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation

By Elleke Boehmer

Book Overview

Why is the nation in a postcolonial world so often seen as a motherland? Stories of women is a pathbreaking study of the perenially fascinating relationship between foundational fictions of the nation and gendered images. The book focuses critically on postcolonial spaces ranging from West Africa to India.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719068797
• ISBN13: 9780719068799
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"