Non-Conforming Women in Neoliberal Cities

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"The evolution of the role of the feminine, the typified 'woman' construct, has seen many shifts in immediate history. While the journey of gender identity confrontations have been surveyed and interrogated with lenses that managed to telescope temporal-spatial variances - thereby creating a composite look at the historical and geographical progressions (and regressions) - the focus on the immediate has demanded greater critical deliberation. In the last few decades the global pattern of emigration and diasporic attachments have necessitated substantial departures from the conventional understanding of such phenomena. The political atmosphere of the world has created large-scale movements, mostly involuntary, that had affected the location and situation of those already transplanted. The exploration that this book engages in, is based on those non-conforming stances that translate into literature and the literary. These are positions that can challenge the institutionalised structures. The chapters in this book look at a variety of such positions - theorizing them, interrogating them and celebrating them. Shrimoyee Chattopadhyay takes us on a journey that spans from terrors and trauma to healing and home. Home is perhaps the most significant concept in the world that we live in, and identifying it is identifying the self. The dislocated finding home is perhaps the most poignant dream of today. This book looks at a major part of that dreamscape - which can and does become nightmarish more often than we would like to recognise."

Dr Siddhartha Biswas, University of Calcutta.