Transcending racial/cultural spaces: the power of the woman in Yusuf Dawood's The Price of Living and Water Under the Bridge

dc.contributor.author	Siundu, Godwin W
dc.date.accessioned	2013-06-27T06:55:03Z
dc.date.available	2013-06-27T06:55:03Z
dc.date.issued	2004
dc.identifier.citation	Godwin W. Siundu (2004). Transcending racial/cultural spaces: the power of the woman in Yusuf Dawood's The Price of Living and Water Under the Bridge. African Identities Volume 2, Issue 2, 2004	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1472584042000310900#.UcvhblewR-I
dc.identifier.uri	http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/40833
dc.description.abstract	This paper interrogates Yusuf Dawood's portrayal of women characters in two of his novels – The Price of Living (1983) and Water Under the Bridge (1991) against the background of the post‐independence multiracial Kenya. Positing that Dawood's portrayal of women differs substantially from that of other authors, the paper engages with notions of group identity and the role of women as disturbing and subverting traditional notions of femininity, cultural and racial purity. This, then, is shown as one way in which women, traditionally viewed as culturally conservative even if by coercion, contribute to the debates on nation‐formation.	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.title	Transcending racial/cultural spaces: the power of the woman in Yusuf Dawood's The Price of Living and Water Under the Bridge	en
dc.type	Article	en