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Cultural Representations of the Second Wife

Editat de Jo Parnell
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 11 dec 2023
The chapters in this collection reveal the depths and nuances in the cultural attitudes toward and popular views of the second wife, from ancient times to the present day. The essays convey perspectives of second wifehood in a way that offers insights into the second wife experience.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781666932843
ISBN-10: 1666932841
Pagini: 212
Ilustrații: Illustrations, unspecified; Tables
Dimensiuni: 157 x 235 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Lexington Books

Cuprins

Foreword
Mark Hoffman
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Jo Parnell
Chapter 1. Toxic Patriarchy: Raise the Red Lantern and Chinese Concubinage
Andrew Howe
Chapter 2. The Second Wife According to Assia Djebar, Fawzia Zouari and Their Novels A Sister to Scheherazade, and The Second Wife
Christa Jones
Chapter 3. Polygamy and Socio-political Configurations in the Egyptian Cultural Imaginations
Azza Harras
Chapter 4 Secondary Spouse: Ekwefi as Second Wife in Chinua Achebe¿s Things Fall Apart
Harry Olufunwa
Chapter 5. Unmasking the Realities of Polygamy: the Figure of the Second Wife in Changes: A Love Story (1993), Ada: A Victim of Fate and Cultural Circumstances (2014), and Mariah (2002).
Shalini Nadaswaran
Chapter 6. Poppaea Sabina, second wife to the Roman Emperor Nero
Jane Bellemore
Chapter 7. ¿I am Mrs de Winter now¿: Gaslighting, a deadly paradox, and Hitchcock¿s second wife.
Kathryn Keeble
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