Title Politics of the female body : postcolonial women writers of the Third World / Ketu H. Katrak

Published New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xxix, 291 pages) 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 Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-277) and index Notes Print version record SUBJECT Commonwealth gnd Subject Commonwealth literature (English) -- Women authors -- History and criticism Women -- Commonwealth countries -- Intellectual life Women -- Developing countries -- Intellectual life Feminism and literature -- Commonwealth countries Feminism and literature -- Developing countries Women and literature -- Commonwealth countries Women and literature -- Developing countries Postcolonialism in literature. Human body in literature. Women in literature. Commonwealth literature (English) -- History and criticism LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies. Commonwealth literature (English) Commonwealth literature (English) -- Women authors Feminism and literature Human body in literature Postcolonialism in literature Women and literature Women in literature Women -- Intellectual life Körper Motiv Postkolonialismus Frau Motiv Postkoloniale Literatur Frauenliteratur Commonwealth countries Developing countries Englisch. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 0813539307 9780813539300 9780813537146 0813537142 9780813537153 0813537150

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