
Real and Imagined Women
Gender, Culture and Postcolonialism
Rajeswari Sunder Rajan(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 28. October 1993
Book
Hardback
164 pages
978-0-415-08503-8 (ISBN)
Description
An essential addition to the postcolonial debate which offers a challenging mode of `reading resistance' which destroys the stereotyped and sensationalised humanist image of the `third world woman' as victim.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
417 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-08503-8 (9780415085038)
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Person
Rajeswari Sunder Rajan lectures in English at the University of Delhi. She has edited a collection of essays entitled The Lie of the Land: English Literary Studies in India and her work on feminist theory and politics has appeared in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society and The Yale Journal of Criticism.
Content
Introduction; Chapter 1 THE SUBJECT OF SATI; Chapter 2 REPRESENTING SATI; Chapter 3 LIFE AFTER RAPE; Chapter 4 THE NAME OF THE HUSBAND; Chapter 5 GENDER, LEADERSHIP AND REPRESENTATION; Chapter 6 REAL AND IMAGINED WOMEN; INDEX;