Gender, place, and identity of South Asian women /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Hershey, PA : Information Science Reference, IGI Global, [2022]
Description:	xxiii, 302 pages ; 27 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Advances in religious and cultural studies (ARCS) book series Advances in religious and cultural studies (ARCS) book series.
Subject:	South Asian literature (English) -- Women authors -- History and criticism. South Asians in literature. Women in literature. Sex role in literature. Gender identity in literature. Place (Philosophy) in literature. Women -- South Asia -- Social conditions. Gender identity in literature. Place (Philosophy) in literature. Sex role in literature. South Asians in literature. Women in literature. Women -- Social conditions. South Asia. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12775151

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Other authors / contributors:	Pourya Asl, Moussa, 1986- editor.
ISBN:	9781668436264 1668436264 9781668436271 1668436272 9781668436288
Notes:	"Premier Reference Source" -- from cover. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"This book studies contemporary literature of South Asian women in the light of the three concepts of gender, place, identity with the overall aim to contribute to the debates on gender identity and equality, spatial and social justice, women empowerment, marginalization and anti-discrimination measures"--
Other form:	Online version: Gender, place, and identity of South Asian women Hershey PA : Information Science Reference, [2022] 9781668436288

Table of Contents:

1. (Dis)Locating Homeland: Border(Home)Land in Taslima Nasreen's French Lover and Monica Ali's Brick Lane
2. Spatial Mobility, Pakistani Muslim Female Subjectivity, and Third-Space Between the Secular and the Religious in Kamila Shamsie's Broken Verses
3. The Partition: A Heterotopic Transcendence in Self-Identity of the Bengali Women Migrants
4. Identity, Roles, and Choices Within the Space of the "Home" in Vijay Tendulkar's Kamala
5. The Maternal Presence in Diasporic Women's Lives in the Works of Amulya Malladi and Chitra Bannerjee Divakaruni: A Focus on Gender, Identity, and Place
6. Gender and Space in Flux in Anukrti Upadhyay's Bhaunri
7. Rewriting of Gender and Sexuality in Tanwi Nandini Islam's Bright Lines: A Cixousian Approach
8. Afghan Women Authors' Discourses of Resistance: Contesting Interplay Between Gender, Place, and Identity
9. Construction and Reconstruction of Space and Identity: An Analysis of Jasvinder Sanghera's Shame Travels
10. Spaces of Wrath: Fractured Identities, Violated Bodies, and Silent Women in the Fiction of Shashi Deshpande
11. Uncovering the Veiled Experiences: Women, Memories, and the Bangladesh Liberation War
12. Quest for Space and Identity of the East Indian Diasporic Female Laborers: The Selected Poems of Ramabai Espinet's Nuclear Seasons
13. Recreating "Home" in Exile: Unfamiliar Terrain, Gender, and Identity - Immigrant Women's Writings in Nineteenth Century India

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