Motherlands : Black women's writing from Africa, the Caribbean, and South Asia

Stories Of Women And Mothers : Gender And Nationalism In The Early Fiction Of Flora Nwapa -- Untold Story And The Retold Story : Intertextuality In Post-colonial Women's Fiction -- Searching Voices : Anita Desai's Clear Light Of Day And Nayantara Sahgal's Rich Like Us -- Something Ancestral Recaptured : Spirit Possession As Trope In Selected Feminist Fictions Of The African Diaspora -- Rebellious Women : Fictional Biographies : Nawal El Sa'adawi's Woman At Point Zero And Mariama Bä's So Long A Letter -- Dangerous Knowledge And The Poetics Of Survival : A Reading Of Our Sister Killjoy And A Question Of Power -- Mothers Or Sisters? Identity, Discourse And Audience In The Writing Of Ama Ata Aidoo And Mariama Bä -- Search For Freedom In Indian Women's Writing -- Heaven Lies Beneath Her Feet? : Mother Figures In Selected Indo-anglian Novels -- Motherhood As A Metaphor For Creativity In Three African Women's Novels : Flora Nwapa, Rebeka Njau And Bessie Head -- Bloodstream Of Our Inheritance : Female Identity And The Caribbean Mothers' Land -- Mothertongue Voices In The Writing Of Olive Senior And Lorna Goodison. Family Connections : Mother And Mother Country In The Fiction Of Jean Rhys And Jamaica Kincaid -- Absent Mother(land)s : Joan Riley's Fiction -- Adopted Motherlands : The Novels Of Marjorie Macgoye And Bessie Head -- Mother/lands : Self And Separation In The Work Of Buchi -- Emecheta, Bessie Head And Jean Rhys. Susheila Nasta, Editor. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [355]-357) And Index.