{"product_id":"negotiating-identities-in-womens-lives-christine-w-sizemore-9780313321634","title":"Negotiating Identities in Women's Lives: English Postcolonial and Contemporary British Novels","description":"\u003cp\u003eWomen face different psychological issues at different ages. But these issues and the experience of confronting them depend on cultural contexts. Literary works represent these psychological and social conflicts, but the manner of representation varies according to the culture of the author. This book brings together feminism, postcolonial theory, and developmental psychology to analyze how traditional literary forms are transformed by women writing in different cultures. The volume discusses works by such well known authors as Margaret Atwood, Nadine Gordimer, Keri Hulme, and Doris Lessing, along with fiction by less studied writers such as Barbara Burford, Joan Riley, and Jessica Anderson. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy juxtaposing novels from different cultures, the volume highlights the new ways in which women renegotiate their identities at different ages and writers reconfigure novelistic forms. The first chapter looks at the search for adulthood in Tsitsi Dangarembga's \u003ci\u003eNervous Conditions, \u003c\/i\u003e set in Zimbabwe, and in Margaret Atwood's \u003ci\u003eCat's Eye, \u003c\/i\u003e set in Canada. The second, on the seach for intimacy, analyzes how Barbara Burford's lesbian novella The Threshing Floor and Keri Hulme's evocation of Maori commensalism in \u003ci\u003eThe Bone People\u003c\/i\u003e undo the traditional romance plot. Later chapters offer similar examinations of how various life stages, such as the searches for place, space, and integrity, are treated in other works.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christine W. Sizemore\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0313321639\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780313321634\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Praeger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/30\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.46h x 6.04w x 0.81d","brand":"Christine W. Sizemore","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48241037050111,"sku":"9780313321634","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5cb79e04-cdab-4f02-8239-ec8c342bce3e.jpg?v=1772652477","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/negotiating-identities-in-womens-lives-christine-w-sizemore-9780313321634","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}