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<p>Elleke Boehmer's work on the crucial intersections between independence, nationalism and gender has already proved canonical in the field. <i>Stories of Women</i> combines her keynote essays on the mother figure and the postcolonial nation, with incisive new work on male autobiography, "daughter" writers, the colonial body, the trauma of the post-colony, and the nation in a transnational context. Focusing on Africa as well as South Asia, and sexuality as well as gender, Boehmer offers fine cl

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Author

Elleke Boehmer

Publisher

Manchester University Press ; Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781781701898

Category

literary studies

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Science, Women Authors

Updated

2026-03-25