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Machine generated contents note: Introduction 1 -- 1. Girlhood Identities: The Search for Adulthood -- in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions -- and Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye 21 -- 2. Sexual Identities: The Search for Intimacy in Barbara -- Burford's "The Threshing Floor" and Keri Hulme's -- The Bone People 37 -- 3. National Identities: The Search for Place in Buchi -- Emecheta's Kehinde and Anita Desai's Clear Light -- of Day 59 -- 4. Social and Political Identities: The Search for Space -- in Margaret Drabble's The Radiant Way and Nadine -- Gordimer's None to Accompany Me 79 5. Cultural Identities: The Search for Integrity in Paule -- Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow and Jessica -- Anderson's Tirra Lirra by the River 107 -- 6. Facing Death: The Search for a Legacy in Joan Riley's -- Waiting in the Twilight and Doris Lessing's The Diary -- of a Good Neighbour 125