The editors are committed to destroying perceptions and stereotypes of third world women as passive victims who need to be "liberated" by Western feminists. The essays address cases in which women have challenged and resisted the political formations-nationalist struggles, revolutions, religious fundamentalist practices, and authoritarian regimes-that shape their daily lives. Each critic presents a close reading of the circumstances under which the feminist writers and film-makers.
Author(s): Bishnupriya Ghosh and Brinda Bose
Series: Gender, Culture and Global Politics, 1
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 1997
Language: English
Pages: 292
Tags: Feminism, Literary Criticism, Film Studies
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title
Copyright
Contents
Series Editor’s Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Feminist Interventions and Locational Politics
The Intervening Configuration: Gender and Feminist Practice
National Identities, Tradition, and Feminism: The Novels of Ama Ata Aidoo Read in the Context of the Works of Kwame Nkrumah
Nationalism and Feminism in the Writings of Santa Devi and Sita Devi
Mother-Country and Fatherland: Re-Membering the Nation in Sara Suleri's Meatless Days
Race, Gender, and the Caribbean Narrative of Revolution
The Transformation of Nation and Womanhood: Revisionist Mythmaking in the Poetry of Nicaragua's Gioconda Belli
The Censored Argentine Text: Griselda Gambaro's Ganarse la Muerte and Reina Roffe's Monte de Venus
Transgressions: Female Desire and Postcolonial Identity in Contemporary Indian Women’s Cinema
The Intervening Discourse: Problematizing Transnational Feminist Dialogues
Feminist Critiques of Nationalism and Communalism from Bangladesh and India: A Transnational Reading
Of Tortillas and Texts: Postcolonial Dialogues in the Latin American Testimonial
Writing the Difference: Feminists’ Invention of the “Arab Woman”
Third World Women's Cinema: If the Subaltern Speaks, Will We Listen?
From Third World Politics to First World Practices: Contemporary Latina Writers in the United States
List of Contributors
Index
