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Magic Stones and Flying Snakes

Magic Stones and Flying Snakes Gender and the 'Postcolonial Exotic' in the Work of Paulina Chiziane and Lídia Jorge

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Publisher's Synopsis

This monograph is the first to identify an important theoretical overlap between Anglo-Saxon and Lusophone postcolonial theories: the systematic neglect of gender and sexual variables in the analysis of the marketing of cultural difference in the post colonial era. Drawing on the theoretical work of Graham Huggan and Boaventura de Sousa Santos, the author of this study discusses the political significance of this neglect by focusing on the asymmetrical positions occupied by two widely acclaimed Lusophone women writers, Paulina Chiziane of Mozambique and Lìdia Jorge of Portugal. The book asks how these two contemporary writers deal with master narratives such as Lusofonia, exoticism, capitalism and post colonialism in their novels, and examines the implications of placing gender and sexual difference at the heart of the 'post colonial exotic'.

Book information

ISBN: 9783034308281
Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Imprint: Peter Lang Edition
Pub date:
Edition: 1st edition
Language: English
Number of pages: 248
Weight: 366g
Height: 152mm
Width: 225mm
Spine width: 18mm