Elleke Boehmer is Hildred Carlile Professor in English at Royal Holloway, University of London

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• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Theorising the en-gendered nation: Motherlands, mothers and nationalist sons2. 'The master's dance to the master's voice': Revolutionary nationalism and women's representation in Ngugi wa Thiong'o3. Of goddesses and stories: Gender and a new politics in Achebe4. The hero's story: The male leader's autobiography and the syntax of postcolonial nationalism5. Stories of women and mothers: Gender and nationalism in the early fiction of Flora Nwapa6. Daughters of the house: The adolescent girl and the nation7. Transfiguring: colonial body into postcolonial narrative8. The nation as metaphor: Ben Okri, Chenjerai Hove, Dambudzo Marechera9. East is East: where postcolonialism is neo-orientalist - the cases of Sarojini Naidu and Arundhati Roy10. Tropes of yearning and dissent: The inflection of desire in Yvonne Vera and Tsitsi Dangarembga11. Beside the West: postcolonial women writers in a transnational frame12. Conclusion: Defining the nation differently

Elleke Boehmer is Hildred Carlile Professor in English at Royal Holloway, University of London

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• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Theorising the en-gendered nation: Motherlands, mothers and nationalist sons2. 'The master's dance to the master's voice': Revolutionary nationalism and women's representation in Ngugi wa Thiong'o3. Of goddesses and stories: Gender and a new politics in Achebe4. The hero's story: The male leader's autobiography and the syntax of postcolonial nationalism5. Stories of women and mothers: Gender and nationalism in the early fiction of Flora Nwapa6. Daughters of the house: The adolescent girl and the nation7. Transfiguring: colonial body into postcolonial narrative8. The nation as metaphor: Ben Okri, Chenjerai Hove, Dambudzo Marechera9. East is East: where postcolonialism is neo-orientalist - the cases of Sarojini Naidu and Arundhati Roy10. Tropes of yearning and dissent: The inflection of desire in Yvonne Vera and Tsitsi Dangarembga11. Beside the West: postcolonial women writers in a transnational frame12. Conclusion: Defining the nation differently

Elleke Boehmer is Hildred Carlile Professor in English at Royal Holloway, University of London

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• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Theorising the en-gendered nation: Motherlands, mothers and nationalist sons2. 'The master's dance to the master's voice': Revolutionary nationalism and women's representation in Ngugi wa Thiong'o3. Of goddesses and stories: Gender and a new politics in Achebe4. The hero's story: The male leader's autobiography and the syntax of postcolonial nationalism5. Stories of women and mothers: Gender and nationalism in the early fiction of Flora Nwapa6. Daughters of the house: The adolescent girl and the nation7. Transfiguring: colonial body into postcolonial narrative8. The nation as metaphor: Ben Okri, Chenjerai Hove, Dambudzo Marechera9. East is East: where postcolonialism is neo-orientalist - the cases of Sarojini Naidu and Arundhati Roy10. Tropes of yearning and dissent: The inflection of desire in Yvonne Vera and Tsitsi Dangarembga11. Beside the West: postcolonial women writers in a transnational frame12. Conclusion: Defining the nation differently