Representation and resistance: South Asian and African women’s texts at home and in the diaspora

Simple item page
dc.contributor.authorSingh, Jaspal Kauren_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-01-23T00:22:42Z
dc.date.available2013-01-23T00:22:42Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.description.abstractRepresentation and Resistance: South Asian and African Women's Texts at Home and in the Diaspora compares colonial and national constructions of gender identity in Western-educated African and South Asian women's texts. Jaspal Kaur Singh argues that, while some writers conceptualize women's equality in terms of educational and professional opportunity, sexual liberation, and individualism, others recognize the limitations of a paradigm of liberation that focuses only on individual freedom. Certain diasporic artists and writers assert that transformation of gender identity construction occurs, but only in transnational cultural spaces of the first world-spaces which have emerged in an era of rampant globalization and market liberalism. In particular, Singh advocates the inclusion of texts from women of different classes, religions, and castes, both in the Global North and in the South.en_US
dc.description.refereedYeseng
dc.identifier.citationSingh, Jaspal Kaur. "Representation and resistance: South Asian and African women’s texts at home and in the diaspora". University of Calgary Press, Calgary, Alberta, 2008.eng
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/34632
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-55238-662-0
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/49346
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Calgary Presseng
dc.publisher.urlhttp://press.ucalgary.ca/eng
dc.rightsAttribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives 3.0 Unported*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/*
dc.subjectSouth Asian literature (English)–Women authors–History andcriticismeng
dc.subjectAfrican literature (English)–Women authors–History and criticismeng
dc.subjectWomen in literatureeng
dc.subjectFeminism and literatureeng
dc.subjectSex role in literatureeng
dc.subjectSouth Asian diaspora in literatureeng
dc.subjectAfrican diaspora in literatureeng
dc.subjectPostcolonialism in literatureeng
dc.titleRepresentation and resistance: South Asian and African women’s texts at home and in the diasporaeng
dc.typebook
Files
Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 5 of 14
Thumbnail Image
Name:
UofCPress_RepresentationResistance_2008.pdf
Size:
3.09 MB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Description:
Download
Thumbnail Image
Name:
UofCPress_RepresentationResistance_2008_Frontmatter.pdf
Size:
1.51 MB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Description:
Download
Thumbnail Image
Name:
UofCPress_RepresentationResistance_2008_Chapter01.pdf
Size:
987.3 KB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Description:
Download
Thumbnail Image
Name:
UofCPress_RepresentationResistance_2008_Chapter02.pdf
Size:
1001.91 KB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Description:
Download
Thumbnail Image
Name:
UofCPress_RepresentationResistance_2008_Chapter03.pdf
Size:
900.92 KB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Description:
Download
License bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
license.txt
Size:
1.84 KB
Format:
Item-specific license agreed upon to submission
Description:
Download
Collections
University of Calgary Press Open Access Books