Abstract
While getting older is a basic anthropological condition, cultures of aging and the modes of their narrative representation vary considerably. My article shows that the connection between women's aging and their role in the narrative transmission of cultural memory is a central theme in the fiction by postcolonial women writers. In these literatures, the construction of identity takes place within structures of orally preserved memory and storytelling. My thesis is that in contemporary postcolonial literatures we are witnessing processes of transforming cultural memory hitherto preserved and transmitted performatively into written narratives. The old woman as storyteller becomes the emblem of this cultural as well as aesthetic programme.
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