Women's Writing in Exile - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807818496 ISBN 13: 9780807818497

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press, 1989

Synopsis

Using a broad range of methodologies, the contributors examine the physical, sociopolitical, canonical, and psychological kinds of exile that women writers in Western culture have endured over the last hundred years. Djuna Barnes, Isak Dinesen, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Jean Rhys, Virginia Woolf, Alice Walker, and Doris Lessing are among the writers whose narratives of exile are studied.

Originally published in 1989.

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Review

A rich, multifaceted consideration of women's condition of exile.--<i>New Directions for Women</i>

From the Back Cover

These essays explore the varieties of exile women writers in Western culture have experienced over the last hundred years. Using a broad range of methodologies, the contributors examine the physical, sociopolitical, canonical, and psychological kinds of exile that women endure.

Edition details

• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807818496
• ISBN 13: 9780807818497
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 454
• Editor: Broe Mary Lynn, Ingram Angela