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Exploring Gender in the Literature of the Indian Diaspora.
Reflecting the continuing interest in diaspora and transnationalism, this collection of critical essays is located at the intersection of gender and diaspora studies, exploring multiple ways in which literature negotiates, interprets and performs gender within established and emerging ethnic spaces....
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I Reading Gender
- ch. One Gender and the Indian Emergency: Representation of Women in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children / Gemma Scott
- ch. Two Communal Violence and Women at Home and in the Diaspora in Anita Rau Badami's Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? / Sanchari Sur
- ch. Three Purdah and Zenana: Re-visioning Conventions / Tulika Bahuguna
- pt. II Writing Gender
- ch. Four Blurring Borders/Blurring Bodies: Diaspora and Womanhood / Monbinder Kaur
- ch. Five Diasporic Mobility and Identity in Flux in V.S. Naipaul's The Mimic Men and Monica Ali's Brick Lane / Stephanie Stonehewer Southmayd
- ch. Six Gendered Diasporic Identities in Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake and Monica Ali's Brick Lane / Elizabeth Jackson
- ch. Seven Kitchen Politics and the Search for an Identity: The Mango Season / Shashikala Muthumal Assella
- ch. Eight Clothing, Gender, and Diaspora / Priyanka Sacheti
- pt. III Performing Gender.
- Note continued: ch. Nine The Masculinisation of the Native Gentleman: A Close Reading of Neel Haldar in Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies / Uma Jayaraman
- ch. Ten Sexual Realisation in a Historical, Social and Cultural Context: Abha Dawesar's Babyji / Harshi Syal Gill
- ch. Eleven Something is Happening: Narrating Queerness in the Films of Karan Johar / Margaret Redlich.