Real and Imagined Women - Gender, Culture and Postcolonialism

Informationen zum Autor Rajeswari Sunder Rajan lectures in English at the University of Delhi. She has edited a collection of essays entitled The Lie of the Land: English Literary Studies in India and her work on feminist theory and politics has appeared in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society and The Yale Journal of Criticism. Klappentext First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Zusammenfassung An essential addition to the postcolonial debate which offers a challenging mode of `reading resistance' which destroys the stereotyped and sensationalised humanist image of the `third world woman' as victim. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Chapter 1 THE SUBJECT OF SATI; Chapter 2 REPRESENTING SATI; Chapter 3 LIFE AFTER RAPE; Chapter 4 THE NAME OF THE HUSBAND; Chapter 5 GENDER, LEADERSHIP AND REPRESENTATION; Chapter 6 REAL AND IMAGINED WOMEN; INDEX;

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 28.10.1993
• EAN: 9780415085045
• ISBN: 978-0-415-08504-5
• Seiten: 164
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Cultural Studies, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Women in Politics, Developing Countries, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Human rights, civil rights, Global South / Developing countries