Dodgson-Katiyo (humanities, Sheffield Hallam University) and Wisker (literature, University of Brighton) present essays that combine literary criticism with other disciplines, such as
sociology, psychology and anthropology. In this study, the writing of postcolonial women is examined in terms of rites of passage, using the work of Gennep and Turner as bases from which to
support or refute their theories. The book is divided by continents but several of the articles deal with women who write about movement from one to another. Three of the articles in the
section on Africa look at the books of Yvonne Vera with the final discussing the ways in which women of Southern Africa write about AIDS. The two articles on the Americas are on Hawaiian
Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl and immigrant Bharati Mukerjee. The essays on Asia focus on women of the Indian sub-continent. The experiences of Aboriginal Australian women are treated. The final
section looks at cross-cultural passages particularly, although several of the others touch on this, as well. Passages particular to women, such as menstruation and pregnancy, are mentioned
along with specifically female responses to universal passages such as death, coming of age and the abrupt change from one culture to another. Prices are converted from Euros and subject to
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