Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Figures -- Introduction -- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz in Seventeenth- Century New Spain and and Finding a Room of One's Own -- The Struggle for Power in Mariama Bâ's Une si longue lettre -- The Power, Symbolism, and Extension of the Mother in Camara Laye's A Feminine Portrait by a Masculine Author -- Picasso, Rushdie, and the Fragmented Woman -- The Metaphor of Quilts and Quiltmaking in Bharati Mukherjee's -- Patchwork and Metaphor: Dina's Quilt in Rohinton's Mistry's A Fine Balance -- Works Cited -- Index.