ABSTRACT

First published in 2000.This book takes a transnational feminist approach to the literature of three contemporary women authors, Virginia Woolf, Alice Walker, and South African writer Zoe Wicomb. The author draws from post-colonial studies and considers how gender collides with race, national origin, and class in women's oppression.

chapter Chapter 2|34 pages

Virginia Woolf: A Critique from the Center of Empire

chapter Chapter 3|30 pages

Transnational Feminist Reading: The Case of Cape Town

chapter Chapter 4|47 pages

Exoticism to Transnational Feminism: Alice Walker

chapter |3 pages

Epilogue