Transgressing Boundaries : Gender, Identity, Culture, and the 'Other' in Postcolonial Women's Narratives in East Africa

Fictions Written Between 1939 And 2005 By Indigenous And White (post)colonial Women Writers Emerging From An African-european Cultural Experience Form The Focus Of This Study. Their Voyages Into The European Diasporic Space In Africa Are Important For Conveying How African Women's Literature Is Situated In Relation To Colonialism. Notwithstanding The Centrality Of African Literature In The New Postcolonial Literatures In English, The Accomplishments Of The Indigenous Writer Grace Ogot Have Been Eclipsed By The Critical Attention Given To Her Male Counterparts, While Elspeth Huxley, Barbara Kimenye, And Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye, Who Are Of Western Cultural Provenance But Adopt An African Perspective, Are Not Accommodated By The Genre Of 'expatriate Literature'. The Present Study Of Both Indigenous And White (post)colonial Women's Narratives That Are Common To Both Categories Fills This Gap.--publisher Website.