Genre and Gender in Butterfly Burning: Yvonne Vera’s Elliptical Writing
Set in the late 1940s in Southern Rhodesia, Yvonne Vera’s novel Butterfly Burning tells the tragic story of Phephelaphi, a young woman who tries to find her own voice and ends up burning herself. In order to express the feeling of incompleteness of the young woman, the author resorts to a form of wr...
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| Publicat a: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ces, |
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| Autor principal: | Louviot, Myriam |
| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2024
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| Accés en línia: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
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