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Transnational Women's Fiction

Unsettling Home and Homeland

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  • © 2008

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  1. Susan Strehle
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: Unsettling Home and Homeland

    • Susan Strehle
    Pages 1-27

  3. Homeless in the American Empire: Toni Morrison’s Paradise

    • Susan Strehle
    Pages 28-52

  4. The Incandescent Home: Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin

    • Susan Strehle
    Pages 53-76

  5. House of Paper: Rosario Ferré’s The House on the Lagoon

    • Susan Strehle
    Pages 77-101

  6. The Decolonized Home: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus

    • Susan Strehle
    Pages 102-125

  7. Exiles and Orphans: Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things

    • Susan Strehle
    Pages 126-152

  8. The Home Elsewhere: Simone Lazaroo’s The Australian Fiancé

    • Susan Strehle
    Pages 153-177

  9. Conclusion: Unsettling Inventions

    • Susan Strehle
    Pages 178-189

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 190-220
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This study argues that the private homes in transnational women's fiction reflect public legacies of colonialism. Published in Australia, Canada, India, Nigeria, Puerto Rico and the United States between 1995 and 2005, the novels use fictional houses to criticize and unsettle home and homeland, depicting their linked oppressions and exclusions.

About the author

SUSAN STREHLE is Professor of English at Binghamton University, USA. She is the author of Fiction in the Quantum Universe and co-editor of Doubled Plots: Romance and History. She has published essays on contemporary American and global fiction in journals including Critique, Contemporary Literature and Modern Fiction Studies.

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