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Women’s Writing, Englishness and National and Cultural Identity

The Mobile Woman and the Migrant Voice, 1938-62

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  • © 2012

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Authors:
  1. Maroula Joannou

    1. Anglia Ruskin University, UK

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: The Mobile Woman and the Migrant Voice

    • Maroula Joannou
    Pages 1-11

  3. The People’s War

    • Maroula Joannou
    Pages 12-43

  4. Austen and Englishness

    • Maroula Joannou
    Pages 44-63

  5. Englishness as History

    • Maroula Joannou
    Pages 64-80

  6. Present Laughter

    • Maroula Joannou
    Pages 81-107

  7. My Ain Folk

    • Maroula Joannou
    Pages 108-133

  8. ‘Indias of the Mind’

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    Pages 134-160

  9. In and Out of Africa

    • Maroula Joannou
    Pages 161-185

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 186-228
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About this book

An original mapping of women's writing in the 1940s and 1950s, this book looks at Englishness and national identity in women's writing and includes writing from Scotland, Wales, Ireland the Indian subcontinent and Africa. The authors discussed include Virginia Woolf, Daphne Du Maurier, Doris Lessing and Muriel Spark.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Anglia Ruskin University, UK

    Maroula Joannou

About the author

MARY JOANNOU is Professor of Literary History and Women's Writing at Anglia Ruskin University, UK. She is the author of 'Ladies, Please Don't Smash These Windows': Women's Writing, Feminist Consciousness and Social Change 1918-1938 and Contemporary Women's Writing: From the Golden Notebook to the Colour Purple. She edited Women Writers of the 1930s: Gender, Politics and History and volume eight of the Palgrave History of British Women's Writing.

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