Women and contemporary world literature : power, fragmentation, and metaphor / Deborah Weagel.

• Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz in seventeenth-century New Spain and finding a room of one's own -- The struggle for power in Mariama Bâ's Une si longue lettre -- The power, symbolism, and extension of the mother in Camara Laye's L'enfant noir: a feminine portrait by a masculine author -- Picasso, Rushdie, and the fragmented woman -- The metaphor of quilts and quiltmaking in Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine -- Patchwork and metaphor: Dina's quilt in Rohinton Mistry's A fine balance.

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Women in literature.  (LCSH)

Metaphor in literature.  (LCSH)

Power (Social sciences) in literature.  (LCSH)

Feminism in literature.  (LCSH)

Women and literature.  (LCSH)

Women in literature  (LCSH)

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