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Reading Buchi Emecheta
Cross-Cultural Conversations
E-bok, 1995
1344 kr
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In this first full-length study of Emecheta's fiction, Fishburn highlights the difficulties inherent in reading across cultures. She challenges the notion that all we need to understand African texts is a willingness to be open to them, arguing that too many of the cultural and critical …
Unexpected Universe of Doris Lessing
A Study in Narrative Technique
Inbunden, 1985
1221 kr
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In this first study of Doris Lessing's science fiction, Fishburn devotes a chapter to each of Lessing's seven novels. Her major argument is that Lessing uses these novels to change our perception of reality by describing worlds that are simultaneously similar to and different from our own. Of …
Reading Buchi Emecheta
Cross-Cultural Conversations
Inbunden, 1995
1221 kr
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In this first full-length study of Emecheta's fiction, Fishburn highlights the difficulties inherent in reading across cultures. She challenges the notion that all we need to understand African texts is a willingness to be open to them, arguing that too many of the cultural and critical …
Problem of Embodiment in Early African American Narrative
Inbunden, 1997
1221 kr
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Offering a revolutionary way of reading 19th-century slave narratives, Fishburn seeks to recover the philosophical foundations of African American literature. Underlying slave narrative is an expression of the problem of physical embodiment; that is, the dualistic thinking of the mind-body …
Dead Are So Disappointing
Häftad, 2000
304 kr
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The Dead Are So Disappointing is a daughter's unflinching meditation on the days immediately preceding and following her father's death—and an interrogation into the lasting impact his life has had on her own. This collection stands revealed as an integral part of a long-delayed mourning process as …
