Representation and Resistance: South Asian and African Women's Texts at Home and in the Diaspora
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Language
English
ISBN
978-1-55238-662-0
Cover
Title Page
Bibliographic Information
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1: Postcolonial Women Writers and Their Cultural Productions
2: Dominant Epistemologies and Alternative Readings: Gender and Globalization
3: The Indian Diasopra and Cultural Alienation in Bharati Mukherjee’s Texts
4: Postcoloniality and Indian Female Sexuality in Aparna Sen’s Film Parama
5: Educational Debates and the Postcolonial Female Imagination in Mariama Bâ’s So Long a Letter
6: The Diasporic Search for Cultural Belonging in Myriam Warner-Vieyra’s Juletane
7: Maddening Inscriptions and Contradictory Subjectivities in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Ner˘ous Conditions
8: Globalism and Transnationalism: Cultural Politics in the Texts of Mira Nair, Gurinder Chadha, Agnes Sam, and Farida Karodia
9: Queering Diaspora in Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night, Nisha Ganatra’s Chutney Popcorn, and Deepa Mehta’s Fire
10: Transnationalism and the Politics of Representation in the Texts of Meena Alexander, Gurinder Chadha, Zainab Ali, and Samina Ali
Conclusion: The Politics of Location and Postcolonial/Transnational Feminst Critical Practices
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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