Table of Contents |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction: Placing Identity in Cross-Cultural Perspective / Anne E. Brown, Marjanne E. Gooze | |
| Female Self-Definition and the African Community in Mariama Ba's Epistolary Novel So Long a Letter / Eva Rueschmann | 3 |
| (Re)Presenting the Self: Identity and Consciousness in the Feature Films of Safi Faye / Sheila J. Petty | 19 |
| Sappho's Daughters: Lesbian Identities in Novels by Quebecois Women (1960-1990) / Anne E. Brown | 29 |
| Finding a Place for Christa Wolf: Gendered Identity in No Place on Earth / Marjanne E. Gooze | 44 |
| Maryse Conde's Heremakhonon: A Triangular Structure of Alienation / Arlette M. Smith | 63 |
| Colonial Discourse and Female Identity: Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine / Suzanne Kehde | 70 |
| Fragmented Identities and the Process of Metamorphosis in Works by Lygia Fagundes Telles / Peggy Sharpe | 78 |
| The "Imaginative Space" of Medbh McGuckian / Susan Porter | 86 |
| Writing the Woman-Subject: Marguerite Duras, from Theory to Fiction / Anne-Marie Gronhovd | 102 |
| The Mysterious Space of Exile: Punishable Songs by Judith Grossmann / Susan Canty Quinlan | 115 |
| Inner and Outer Space in the Works of Esther Rochon / Annick Chapdelaine | 126 |
| Southern Africa and the Theme of Madness: Novels by Doris Lessing, Bessie Head, and Nadine Gordimer / Nancy Topping Bazin | 137 |
| Dismantling the Master's Houses: Jean Rhys and West Indian Identity / Fiona R. Barnes | 150 |
| Wild Child, Tropical Flower, Mad Wife: Female Identity in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea / Deanna Madden | 162 |
| Isabel Allende and the Discourse of Exile / Marketta Laurila | 177 |
| Too Disconnected/Too Bound Up: The Paradox of Identity in Merce Rodoreda's The Time of the Doves / Kayann Short | 187 |
| Scientist and Mother; Portrait of the Heroine in I. Grekova's Fiction / Margareta Thompson | 196 |
| Italian Women in Search of Identity in Dacia Maraini's Novels / Vera F. Golini | 206 |
| Naming the Unspeakable: The Mapping of Female Identity in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior / Marlene Goldman | 223 |
| Born of a Stranger: Mother-Daughter Relationships and Storytelling in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club / Gloria Shen | 233 |
| The Ambivalence of Mirroring and Female Bonding in Paule Marshall's Brown Girl, Brownstones / Laura Niesen de Abruna | 245 |
| No Place for Identity: Jeannette Lander's Migrating Women's Aesthetic / Tobe Levin | 253 |
| Expatriate Afro-American Women as Exotics / Marilyn Elkins | 264 |
| Index | 275 |
| About the Editors and Contributors | 285 |