‘Not-Quite Insiders and Not-Quite Outsiders’: The ‘Process of Womanhood’ in Beka Lamb, Nervous Conditions and Daughters of the Twilight

The Journal of Commonwealth Literature

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1992, Pages 37-47

  Flockemann, Miki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

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EID: 84972630564     PISSN: 00219894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002198949202700105     Document Type: Article

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5. The term “post-colonial” is used here as defined by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin, “to cover all the culture affected by the imperial process from the moment of colonization to the present day”, The Empire Writes Back. Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures, London and New York: Routledge, 1989, p. 2.
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11. See Ashcroft al et, p. 35.
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