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Refiguring women, colonialism, and modernity in Burma /
Presents the first study of the woman of the khit kala--"the woman of the times"--Who burst onto the covers and pages of novels, newspapers, and advertisements in the 1920s. Educated and politicized, earner and consumer, "Burmese" and "Westernized," she embodied the pos...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press,
©2011.
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| Colección: | Southeast Asia--politics, meaning, memory.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Presents the first study of the woman of the khit kala--"the woman of the times"--Who burst onto the covers and pages of novels, newspapers, and advertisements in the 1920s. Educated and politicized, earner and consumer, "Burmese" and "Westernized," she embodied the possibilities and challenges of the modern era, as well as the hopes and fears it evoked. In Refiguring Women, Chie Ikeya interrogates what these shifting and competing images of the feminine reveal about the experience of modernity in colonial Burma. She marshals a wide range of hitherto unexamined Burmese language sources to analyze both the discursive figurations of the woman of the khit kala and the choices and actions of actual women who--whether pursuing higher education, becoming political, or adopting new clothes and hairstyles--unsettled existing norms and contributed to making the woman of the khit kala the privileged idiom for debating colonialism, modernization, and nationalism |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 239 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-228) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780824861063 082486106X 0824834615 9780824834616 9780824871741 082487174X |