Representation and resistance [electronic resource] : South Asian and African women's texts at home and in the diaspora / Jaspal Kaur Singh.
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Calgary :
University of Calgary Press,
[2008]
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | |
| Variant Title: |
Representation and Resistance: South Asian and African Women's Texts at Home and in the Diaspora |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
Contents:
- 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.