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Bridges, Borders and Bodies: Transgressive Transculturality in Contemporary South Asian Diasporic Womenâ (Tm)S Novels
Transgressive Transculturality in Contemporary South Asian Diasporic Women's Novels
Christine Vogt-William
Livre relié | Anglais
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Description
South Asian diasporas can be considered transcultural legacies of colonialism, while constituting transcultural forms of postcolonial reality in today's globalised world. The main focus of investigation here is South Asian women's fiction, where diverse forms of identity negotiation undertaken by the protagonists in a number of contemporary novels (from the 1990s to the early 2000s) are read as transgressions.The themes of early gendered experiences of South Asian indentured labour migration, female genealogies and transmissions of cultural heritages down female lines, as well as negotiations of patriarchal violence, are read using a framework culled from postcolonial and feminist criticism. The literary representations of South Asian diasporic female experience in these texts are forms of commentary and critique by contemporary South Asian diasporic women writers. Hence these novels can be viewed as feminist strategies of textual creativity with distinct political aims of presenting transformative narratives addressing the tensions of diaspora and patriarchy.This book is intended to contribute to the current spectrum of academic work being done in diaspora studies, in that it brings together the concepts of diaspora, transculturality, contemporary women's writing and transnational feminist critical approaches to bear on South Asian women's diasporic literature, reflecting a transcultural feminist literary aesthetic. Contrary to the celebratory notion of the concept in much theory, transculturality, as represented in these texts, is fraught with ambivalence.
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- Nombre de pages :
- 299
- Langue:
- Anglais
Caractéristiques
- EAN:
- 9781443860451
- Date de parution :
- 01-08-14
- Format:
- Livre relié
- Format numérique:
- Genaaid
- Dimensions :
- 147 mm x 208 mm
- Poids :
- 566 g
