The Politics of the Female Body : Postcolonial Women Writers /

Is it possible to simultaneously belong to and be exiled from a community? Arguing that it is possible, the author uncovers the ways that the female body becomes a site of both oppression and resistance. She reveals common political and feminist alliances across geographic boundaries.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Katrak, Ketu H.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2006.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Commonwealth
Frauenliteratur
Postkoloniale Literatur
Frau > Motiv
Postkolonialismus
Körper > Motiv
Women > Intellectual life.
Women in literature.
Women and literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Human body in literature.
Feminism and literature.
Commonwealth literature (English) > Women authors.
Commonwealth literature (English)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Femmes dans la litterature.
Corps humain dans la litterature.
Postcolonialisme dans la litterature.
Femmes et litterature > Pays en voie de developpement.
Femmes et litterature > Pays du Commonwealth.
Feminisme et litterature > Pays en voie de developpement.
Feminisme et litterature > Pays du Commonwealth.
Femmes > Pays en voie de developpement > Vie intellectuelle.
Femmes > Pays du Commonwealth > Vie intellectuelle.
Écrits de femme anglais du Commonwealth > Histoire et critique.
Litterature du Commonwealth (anglaise) > Histoire et critique.
Commonwealth literature (English) > History and criticism.
Women and literature > Developing countries.
Women and literature > Commonwealth countries.
Feminism and literature > Developing countries.
Feminism and literature > Commonwealth countries.
Women > Developing countries > Intellectual life.
Women > Commonwealth countries > Intellectual life.
Commonwealth literature (English) > Women authors > History and criticism.
Englisch.
Developing countries.
Commonwealth countries.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Theorizing a politics of the female body : language and resistance
  • Indigenous Third World female traditions of resistance : a recuperation of herstories
  • English education socializing the female body : cultural alienations within the parameters of race, class, and color
  • Cultural "traditions" exiling the female body
  • Motherhood demystified.

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