Title:
Transnational women's fiction : unsettling home and homeland / Susan Strehle.
Author:
Strehle, Susan, author.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-212) and index.
Introduction : unsettling home and homeland -- Homeless in the American empire : Toni Morrison's Paradise -- The incandescent home : Margaret Atwood's The blind assassin -- House of paper : Rosario Ferr�e's The house on the lagoon -- The decolonized home : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple hibiscus -- Exiles and orphans : Arundhati Roy's The god of small things -- The home elsewhere : Simone Lazaroo's The Australian fianc�e -- Conclusion : unsettling inventions.
"Transnational Women's Fiction interprets recent fiction by women writers from six homelands and finds that their invented homes reflect private forms of public exclusions and oppressions. The novels ground their action in houses that stand for the nation, each linked to damaging legacies of imperial domination. In novels written in English and published in Australia, Canada, India, Nigeria, Puerto Rico, and the United States between 1995 and 2005, the writers use fictional homes to criticize and effectively unsettle home and homeland." "Drawing together feminist and postcolonial theories, Susan Strehle links domestic practices and imperial projects. She advances a new view of home and homeland as intertwined hierarchical spaces exploiting people of unprivileged gender, race, class, religion, and ethnicity. Close readings of the six novels engage transnational women's fiction that unsettles home and dispels the sentimental narrative of homeland. In crossing traditional disciplinary boundaries, this book attempts to unsettle and renew."--Jacket.
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan,
Publication Place:
Basingstoke England ; New York :
ISBN:
9780230536876
0230536875
Subject:
American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Home in literature.
Feminism and literature -- English-speaking countries.
English fiction -- History and criticism.
English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
English fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
Women and literature -- English-speaking countries.
Sex role in literature.
Contents:
Introduction : unsettling home and homeland -- Homeless in the American empire : Toni Morrison's Paradise -- The incandescent home : Margaret Atwood's The blind assassin -- House of paper : Rosario Ferr�e's The house on the lagoon -- The decolonized home : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple hibiscus -- Exiles and orphans : Arundhati Roy's The god of small things -- The home elsewhere : Simone Lazaroo's The Australian fianc�e -- Conclusion : unsettling inventions.
Physical Description:
ix, 220 pages ;
Publication Date:
2008.
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