Each of these novelists, in her own way, presents a critique of the idealised
woman of the nineteenth-century. My aim in this dissertation is to reveal the
degree to which each is successful in her mission to 'explode ...
The aim of this study is to offer a critical analysis of representations of gender violence and resistance to such violence in selected novels by Zimbabwean women writers. A great deal of scholarship on Zimbabwean women ...
The central tenet of the study is that language and madness are bound together, language both
including madness and perpetuating the exclusion of madness as 'other'. The first chapter
considers the representation of ...