Maps of women's goings and stayings
This book tells the life and travel stories of women, whether in fact or as possibility, and examines women's physical mobility in a culture of gendered, postcolonial space that restricts their movement. Straddling the divide between fiction and scholarship, it combines fictional narrative, contemplation, theoretical thinking, scholarly discussion, and interviews
Print Book, English, 2001
Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 2001
382 pages ; 24 cm.
9780804732925, 9780804732932, 0804732922, 0804732930
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1. The house and the longing 2. Janie's room with Zinnia 3. Storytails 4. The princess in the caravan 5. The princess in the caravan too 6. The Indian in the longing 7. The mountains and the hills and the toilet 8. Fearledge 9. Bookmaps and housebooks 10. Balls, bats and cars 11. The sea and the desert 12. Gibraltar.