Table of Contents:
  • Female self-definition and the African community in Mariama Bâ's epistolary novel "So long a letter" / Eva Rueschmann
  • (Re)presenting the self : identity and consciousness in the feature films of Safi Faye / Sheila J. Petty
  • Sappho's daughters : lesbian identities in novels by Québécois women (1960-1990) / Anne E. Brown
  • Finding a place for Christa Wolf : gendered identity in No Place on Earth / Marjanne E. Goozé
  • Maryse Condé's Hérémakhonon : a triangular structure of alienation / Arlette M. Smith
  • Colonial discourse and female identity : Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine / Suzanne Kehde
  • Fragmented identities and the process of metamorphosis in works by Lygia Fagundes Telles / Peggy Sharpe
  • Imaginative space of Medbh McGuckian / Susan Porter
  • Writing the woman-subject : Marguerite Duras, from theory to fiction / Anne-Marie Gronhovd
  • Mysterious space of exile : Punishable Songs by Judith Grossmann / Susan Canty Quinlan
  • Inner and outer space in the works of Esther Rochon / Annick Chapdelaine
  • Southern Africa and the theme of madness : novels by Doris Lessing, Bessie Head, and Nadine Gordimer / Nancy Topping Bazin
  • Dismantling the master's houses : Jean Rhys and West Indian identity / Fiona R. Barnes
  • Wild child, tropical flower, mad wife : female identity in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea / Deanna Madden
  • Isabel Allende and the discourse of exile / Marketta Laurila
  • Too disconnected/too bound up : the paradox of identity in Mercé Rodoreda's The Time of the Doves / Kayann Short
  • Scientist and mother : portrait of the heroine in I. Grekova's fiction / Margareta Thompson
  • Italian women in search of identity in Dacia Maraini's novels / Vera F. Golini
  • Naming the unspeakable : the mapping of female identity in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior / Marlene Goldman
  • Born of a stranger : mother-daughter relationships and storytelling in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club / Gloria Shen
  • Ambivalence of mirroring and female bonding in Paule Marshall's Brown Girl, Brownstones / Laura Niesen de Abruña
  • No place for identity : Jeannete Lander's migrating women's aesthetic / Tobe Levin
  • Expatriate Afro-American women as exotics / Marilyn Elkins.