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;

Product details

• Authors: Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.10.1993
• EAN: 9780415085045
• ISBN: 978-0-415-08504-5
• No. of pages: 164
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies