Representation and resistance : South Asian and African women's texts at home and in the diaspora /

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Author / Creator:Singh, Jaspal Kaur, 1951-
Imprint:Calgary : University of Calgary Press, [2008]
Description:1 online resource xiv, 232 pages
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12325301
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ISBN:9781552386620
1552386627
9781552382677
1552382672
9781552382455
1282035541
9781282035546
1552382451
Digital file characteristics:text file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-216) and index.
English.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on 11/10/2020).
Summary:Focuses on the work of Western-educated African and Indian women writers resisting gender identity constructions at various points in history. This book examines colonial and national gender identity constructions in female-authored texts at 'home' and the continued deployment of and resistance to gender identity impositions in various spaces.
Other form:Print version: Singh, Jaspal Kaur, 1951-. Representation and resistance : South Asian and African women's texts at home and in the diaspora. Calgary : University of Calgary Press, [2008] 9781552382455
Standard no.:2977957

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505 0 |a Postcolonial women writers and their cultural productions -- Dominant epistemologies and alternative readings : gender and globalization -- The Indian diaspora and cultural alienation in Bharati Mukherjee's texts -- Postcoloniality and Indian female sexuality in Aparna Sen's film Parama -- Educational debates and the postcolonial female imagination in Mariama Bâ's So long a letter -- The diasporic search for cultural belongin in Myriam Water-Vieyra's Juletane -- Maddening inscriptions and contradictory subjectivities in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous conditions -- Globalism and transnationalism : cultural politics in the texts of Mira Nair, Gurinder Chadha, Agnes Sam, and Farida Karodia -- Queering diaspora in Shani Mootoo's Cereus blooms at night, Nisha Ganatra's Chutney popcorn, and Deepa Mehta's Fire -- Transnationalism and the politics of representation in the texts of Meena Alexander, Gurinder Chadha, Zainab Ali, and Samina Ali -- The politics of location and postcolonial/transnational feminist critical practices. 
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