Interventions (eBook, PDF)

Feminist Dialogues on Third World Women's Literature and Film
Redaktion: Ghosh, Bishnupriya; Bose, Brinda

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Produktbeschreibung

The editors are committed to destroying perceptions and stereotypes of third world women as passive victims who need to be "liberated" by Western feminists. The essays address cases in which women have challenged and resisted the political formations-nationalist struggles, revolutions, religious fundamentalist practices, and authoritarian regimes-that shape their daily lives. Each critic presents a close reading of the circumstances under which the feminist writers and film-makers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135598501
• Artikelnr.: 57495024

Autorenporträt

Brinda Bose. Bishnupriya Ghosh is Professor of English and affiliated faculty in the departments of Film and Media Studies, Comparative Literature, and Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of When Borne Across: Literary Cosmopolitics in the Contemporary Indian Novel.

Inhaltsangabe

The Intervening Configuration: Gender and Feminist Practice: National Identities
Tradition
and Feminism: The Novels of Ama Ata Aidoo Read in the Context of the Works of Kwame Nkrumah
Nationalism and Feminism in the Writings of Santa Devi and Sita Devi
Mother-Country and Fatherland: Re-Membering the Nation in Sara Suleri's Meatless Days
Race
Gender
and the Caribbean Narrative of Revolution
The Transformation of Nation and Womanhood: Revisionist Mythmaking in the Poetry of Nicaragua's Gioconda Belli
The Censored Argentine Text: Griselda Gambaro's Ganarse la Muerte and Reina Roffe's
Transgressions: Female Desire and Postcolonial Identity in Contemporary Indian Women's Cinema
The Intervening Discourse: Problematizing Transnational Feminist Dialogues: Feminist Critiques of Nationalism and Communalism from Bangladesh and India: A Transnational Reading
Of Tortillas and Texts: Postcolonial Dialogues in the Latin American Testimonial
Writing the Difference: Feminists' Invention of the "Arab Woman"
Third World Women's Cinema: If the Subaltern Speaks
Will We Listen?
From Third World Politics to First World Practices: Contemporary Latina Writers in the United States