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

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Explores the relation of gender and nation in postcolonial writing about India.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ray, Sangeeta
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2000.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Frau
Literatur
Geschlechterrolle
Women > Social conditions.
Women > Political activity.
Women in Hinduism.
Feminism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Feminism & Feminist Theory.
Femmes dans l'hindouisme > Inde.
Femmes > Activite politique > Inde.
Femmes dans l'hindouisme.
Femmes en politique > Inde.
Femmes > Inde > Conditions sociales.
Feminisme > Inde > Histoire.
Women in Hinduism > India.
Women > Political activity > India.
Women > India > Social conditions.
Feminism > India > History.
Indien
India.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Gender and nation : woman warriors in Chatterjee's Devi Chaudhurani and Anandamath
  • Woman as "suttee" : the construction of India in three Victorian narratives
  • Woman as nation and a nation of women : Tagore's The home and the world and Hossain's Sultana's dream
  • New women, new nations : writing the partition in Desai's Clear light of day and Sidhwa's Cracking India.

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