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9 | (2) |
| PREFACE |
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11 | (2) |
| CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION |
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1. The Politics of Identity |
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13 | (6) |
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2. Women's Literature and Female Identity |
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19 | (13) |
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3. The Metaphorization of Exclusion |
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32 | (5) |
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4. Women's Experience - Text and Life |
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37 | (14) |
| CHAPTER II: PLACELESSNESS AS STARTING-POINT |
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51 | (48) |
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51 | (16) |
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2. Makhaya:"The One Who Stays at Home" |
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67 | (16) |
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83 | (7) |
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90 | (7) |
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5. From Outsiders to Strangers |
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97 | (2) |
| CHAPTER III: THE STRANGER |
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99 | (48) |
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1. The Arrival of the Stranger |
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99 | (7) |
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2. A Village of Strangers |
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106 | (12) |
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3. Abdication and Exile: The Outsider in Maru |
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118 | (11) |
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129 | (14) |
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5. Blurring of Boundaries |
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143 | (4) |
| CHAPTER IV: THE DUALISM OF TRANSCENDENCE |
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1. Escape into the Universal |
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147 | (9) |
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2. Ordinary People and Chiefs |
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156 | (8) |
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164 | (8) |
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172 | (17) |
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5. The Limitations of Absolute Divisions |
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189 | (2) |
| CHAPTER V: THE RETURN OF THE BODY |
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191 | (50) |
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1. Reclaiming the Universal |
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191 | (3) |
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194 | (22) |
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124 | (117) |
| CHAPTER VI: CREATING A PLACE |
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241 | (44) |
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241 | (13) |
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2. The Journey and the House |
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254 | (8) |
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3. Femininity and the "Pure Relationship" |
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262 | (8) |
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4. Place and the Ordinary |
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270 | (9) |
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5. Colonization or Cultivation |
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279 | (6) |
| CONCLUSION |
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285 | (6) |
| NOTES |
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291 | (26) |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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317 | (14) |
| INDEX |
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