Gender Matters in Postcolonial Literature: Image, Sumbol, Motif

The enclosed or imprisoned woman

• Solitude and Enclosure in Oscar and Lucinda
• The Enclosed Space in Swift, Byatt, and Carey
• The Enclosed Space in Possession
• Robinson Crusoe as a Heroine

The grotesque

• The Grotesque and Post-Colonialism in Shame

Victims

• The Value of Suffering
• Sakti, Suffering, and Power

Saviors

• The Role of Women in Things Fall Apart

Miscellaneous Images of Women

• Feminizing Narrative and Landscape: Images of Women in Three Postcolonial Texts
• Changing Images of Women in South Asian Fiction
• Women's Lives in Desai's In Custody<