Women's Writing, Englishness and National and Cultural Identity: The Mobile Woman and the Migrant Voice, 1938-1962
Women’s writing and shifting ideas of Englishness after 1938
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Women’s writing and shifting ideas of Englishness after 1938
M. Joannou maps women’s writing of the 1940s and 1950s through questions of Englishness, national identity, mobility, and migration. The study places work from Scotland, Wales, Ireland, the Indian subcontinent, and Africa alongside writing associated with England, widening the geographical frame for considering postwar literary culture. Discussions of Virginia Woolf, Daphne du Maurier, Doris Lessing, and Muriel Spark anchor an approach concerned with how national and cultural affiliations are represented and contested across the period. With its emphasis on multiple locations and voices, the book offers a focused critical framework for examining women’s literature between 1938 and 1962.
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- Students and scholars of twentieth-century women’s writing
- Readers studying national identity and Englishness in literature
- Those interested in postwar, migrant, and transnational literary contexts
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