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Authors: Walter Collins, Walter P. Collins
ISBN-13: 9780761834830, ISBN-10: 0761834834
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University Press of America
Date Published: June 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Walter Collins

Book Synopsis

Tracing Personal Expansion reads late twentieth century works by African female novelists. By exploring the possibility of self-development in African female protagonists, this work augments existing feminist critiques that have analyzed the possibilities and potentials for the individuation of mostly Western, mostly European female characters.

1	The essence of the Bildungsroman : history and theory, possibilitites and future	1
2	Having eyes to see more : Emecheta's Second-class citizen as modern day Bildungsroman	37
3	"...You're always out, aren't yer?" : Adah's self-development progresses in Emecheta's In the ditch	59
4	The "ligthening of various darknesses" : Tambu's tortuous path to development in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous conditions	71
5	Roused to re-newed understanding : reading Calixthe Beyala's Le petit prince de Belleville	91
6	A journey ignites awakening : Beyala's Maman a un amant	111
	Conclusion : what lies down the path?	123

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Author Biography: Walter Collins

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