Omschrijving
What does it mean to be an heir, as a woman writer, to colonial and postcolonial cultures in which European language has become so thoroughly ingrained? Examining women writers from India, Egypt, Algeria, and Mauritius, White Tongue, Brown Skin sheds light on the essential double nature of the colonial experience.
Maya Boutaghou is Associate Professor of French at the University of Virginia and the author of two books in French and coeditor of two anthologies, including Cultural Dynamics, the Minor in Question (2020).