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Title

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

Names

  • Singh, Jaspal Kaur, 1951-

Created / Published

  • Calgary : University of Calgary Press, [2008]

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.

Headings

  • -  African diaspora in literature
  • -  African literature (English)--Women authors--History and criticism
  • -  Feminism and literature
  • -  Postcolonialism in literature
  • -  Sex role in literature
  • -  South Asian diaspora in literature
  • -  South Asian literature (English)--Women authors--History and criticism
  • -  Women in literature

Notes

  • -  Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-216) and index.
  • -  Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on 11/10/2020)

Medium

  • 1 online resource xiv, 232 pages

Call Number/Physical Location

  • PN56.5.W64

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2020426319

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  • Unrestricted online access

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  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

Singh, Jaspal Kaur. Representation and resistance: South Asian and African women's texts at home and in the diaspora. [Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2008] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2020426319/.

APA citation style:

Singh, J. K. (2008) Representation and resistance: South Asian and African women's texts at home and in the diaspora. [Calgary: University of Calgary Press] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2020426319/.

MLA citation style:

Singh, Jaspal Kaur. Representation and resistance: South Asian and African women's texts at home and in the diaspora. [Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2008] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2020426319/>.