Identity Politics of Postcolonial Feminism - Strategies of Essentialism

The Identity Politics of Postcolonial Feminism provides an original analysis of the conceptual categories of essentialisms (situated and strategic) and the politics of location evoked and practised by five hyphenated South Asian postcolonial feminists in the contemporary Anglo-North-American academy: Himani Bannerji, Inderpal Grewal, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Sherene H. Razack and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. 

About the author

Mridula Nath Chakraborty is a literary critic, postcolonial feminist theorist and cultural studies scholar.

Product details

• Authors: Mridula Nath Chakraborty, Chakraborty Mridula Nath
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 06.05.2025, delayed
• EAN: 9781785278495
• ISBN: 978-1-78527-849-5
• No. of pages: 250
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, Feminism & feminist theory, Feminism and feminist theory, Literature: history and criticism, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge