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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"contemporary women's writing"”.
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Between silence and speech : mystical experience in contemporary women's writing
… representation of mysticism and female mystics incontemporary women's writing, with specific reference to fiction by Michele Roberts,Sarah Waters, Margaret Atwood and Janet Frame. Drawing upon a core mysticalproblem (the question of how to articulate the ineffable divine), women's …
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The virgin's daughters: Catholic traditions and the post-colonial south in contemporary women's writing
This dissertation analyzes the texts of contemporary women writers who consciously engage dominant Catholic, American, and southern ideologies in their narratives and who posit Louisiana as a liminal, hybrid space. Building upon postcolonial concepts of hybridity and performance of cultural memory, …
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Recalling trauma: the legacy of slavery and colonialism in contemporary black women’s fiction
… examines key literary representations of black women’s historical trauma linked to colonialism and slavery. Through comparative readings of contemporary fiction by black women writers from two continents, I explore the intimate links between the historical traumas of colonialism and slavery and …