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Representation and Resistance: South Asian and African Women's Texts at Home and in the Diaspora

Representation and Resistance: South Asian and African Women's Texts at Home and in the Diaspora


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Representation and Resistance compares colonial and national constructions of gender identity in Western-educated African and South Asian women's texts. Jaspal Kaur Singh argues that, while some writers conceptualize women's equality in terms of educational and professional opportunity, sexual liberation, and individualism, others recognize the limitations of a paradigm of liberation that focuses only on individual freedom.

Certain diasporic artists and writers assert that transformation of gender identity construction occurs, but only in transnational cultural spaces of the first world-spaces which have emerged in an era of rampant globalization and market liberalism. In particular, Singh advocates the inclusion of texts from women of different classes, religions, and castes, both in the Global North and in the South.

Table of Contents:
Preface; Postcolonial Women Writers & Their Cultural Productions; Dominant Epistemologies & Alternative Readings: Gender & Globalisation; The Indian Diasopra & Cultural Alienation in Bharati Mukherjee's Texts; Postcoloniality & Indian Female Sexuality in Aparna Sen's Film Parama; Educational Debates & the Postcolonial Female Imagination in Mariama Bd's So Long a Letter; The Diasporic Search for Cultural Belonging in Myriam Warner-Vieyra's Juletane; Maddening Inscriptions & Contradictory Subjectivities in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions; Globalism & Transnationalism: Cultural Politics in the Texts of Mira Nair, Gurinder Chadha, Agnes Sam & Farida Karodia; Queering Diaspora in Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night, Nisha Ganatra's Chutney Popcorn & Deepa Mehta's Fire; Transnationalism & the Politics of Representation in the Texts of Meena Alexander, Gurinder Chadha, Zainab Ali & Samina Ali; Conclusion: The Politics of Location and Postcolonial/Transnational Feminist Critical Practices; Index.

About the Author :
Jaspal Kaur Singh is a professor in the Department of English at Northern Michigan University, where she teaches courses in postcolonial and world literatures.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781552382455
  • Publisher: University of Calgary Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Calgary Press
  • Height: 226 mm
  • No of Pages: 246
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Weight: 375 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1552382451
  • Publisher Date: 30 Oct 2008
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: South Asian and African Women's Texts at Home and in the Diaspora
  • Width: 149 mm


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