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Representation and Resistance
Kaur Singh, Jaspal, Phd
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Description for Representation and Resistance
Paperback. Focuses on the work of Western-educated African and Indian women writers resisting gender identity constructions at various points in history. This book examines colonial and national gender identity constructions in female-authored texts at 'home' and the continued deployment of and resistance to gender identity impositions in various spaces. Num Pages: 246 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FK; 1H; DS; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 376.
Representation and Resistance compares colonial and national constructions of gender identity in Western-educated African and South Asian women's texts. Jaspal Kaur Singh argues that, while some writers conceptualize women's equality in terms of educational and professional opportunity, sexual liberation, and individualism, others recognize the limitations of a paradigm of liberation that focuses only on individual freedom.
Certain diasporic artists and writers assert that transformation of gender identity construction occurs, but only in transnational cultural spaces of the first world-spaces which have emerged in an era of rampant globalization and market liberalism. In particular, Singh advocates the inclusion of texts ... Read more
Representation and Resistance compares colonial and national constructions of gender identity in Western-educated African and South Asian women's texts. Jaspal Kaur Singh argues that, while some writers conceptualize women's equality in terms of educational and professional opportunity, sexual liberation, and individualism, others recognize the limitations of a paradigm of liberation that focuses only on individual freedom.
Certain diasporic artists and writers assert that transformation of gender identity construction occurs, but only in transnational cultural spaces of the first world-spaces which have emerged in an era of rampant globalization and market liberalism. In particular, Singh advocates the inclusion of texts ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Calgary Press Canada
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
Number of Pages
246
Place of Publication
Calgary, Canada
ISBN
9781552382455
SKU
V9781552382455
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About Kaur Singh, Jaspal, Phd
Jaspal Kaur Singh is a professor in the Department of English at Northern Michigan University, where she teaches courses in postcolonial and world literatures.
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