En-Gendering India : Woman and Nation in Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives /

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En-Gendering India offers an innovative interpretation of the role that gender played in defining the Indian state during both the colonial and postcolonial eras. Focusing on both British and Indian literary texts-primarily novels-produced between 1857 and 1947, Sangeeta Ray examines representations...

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Autor principal: Ray, Sangeeta (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, [2000]
Temas:
Feminism > India > History.
Women in Hinduism > India.
Women > Political activity > India.
Women > India > Social conditions.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies.
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  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER ONE Gender and Nation: Woman Warriors in Chatterjee's Devi Chaudhurani and Anandamath
  • CHAPTER TWO Woman as "Suttee": The Construction of India in Three Victorian Narratives
  • CHAPTER THREE Woman as Nation and a Nation of Women: Tagore's The Home and the World and Hossain's Sultana's Dream
  • CHAPTER FOUR New Women, New Nations: Writing the Partition in Desai's Clear Light ofDay and Sidhwa's Cracking India
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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