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Author Ray, Sangeeta

Title En-gendering India : woman and nation in colonial and postcolonial narratives / Sangeeta Ray
Published Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 198 pages)
Series e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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
Summary Explores the relation of gender and nation in postcolonial writing about India
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-194) and index
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Subject Feminism -- India -- History
Women -- India -- Social conditions
Women -- Political activity -- India
Women in Hinduism -- India
Women in Hinduism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
Feminism
Women in Hinduism
Women -- Political activity
Women -- Social conditions
Geschlechterrolle
Literatur
Frau
India
Indien
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822382805
0822382806
1282919903
9781282919907
9786612919909
6612919906