Aeroplane Mirrors Personal and Political Reflexivity in Post-Colonial Women's Novels

No study has yet linked the output of women's literature from post-colonial nations with the issues itemized in the Platform for Action arising out of the Fourth World Conference for Women in 1995. Morgan's work interconnects literary speculation with articulated policies, and by doing so she keeps the dialogue between fact and fiction alive and highly relevant in a world that desperately needs both rational inquiry and imaginative myth. Morgan reveals how novels written by women from countries formerly occupied by European powers embody the linguistic, personal, and political complications of the post-colonial experience. By considering the history of the novel and the evolution of gender studies, as well as the struggle for political voice experienced by all colonized persons, she places selected post-colonial novels in context. This is a detailed examination of the interdependencies between politics and art. Morgan's book celebrates the act of writing as a courageous and innately po Morgan reveals how novels written by women from countries formerly occupied by European powers embody the linguistic, personal, and political complications of the post-colonial experience. By considering the history of the novel and the evolution of gender studies, as well as the struggle for political voice experienced by all colonized persons, she places selected post-colonial novels in context. This is a detailed examination of the interdependencies between politics and art. Morgan's book celebrates the act of writing as a courageous and innately political act.Morgan, Elizabeth is the author of 'Aeroplane Mirrors Personal and Political Reflexivity in Post-Colonial Women's Novels' with ISBN 9780325070582 and ISBN 032507058X.