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En-gendering India : woman and nation in colonial and postcolonial narratives / Sangeeta Ray

By: Ray, SangeetaContributor(s): Ray, SangeetaMaterial type: Text

TextPublisher number: :Variety Books Publishers & Distributors | :B-10 Street No 2 West Vinod Nagar Delhi 110092 Publication details: Durham, London :Duke University Press, 2000Description: viii, 198 pages ; 24 cmISBN: 9780822324904Subject(s): Social sciences | Groups of people | Feminism -- India -- History | Women -- Political activity -- India | Women -- India -- Social conditions | Féminisme -- Inde -- Histoire | Femmes -- Inde -- Conditions sociales | Femmes dans l'hindouisme | Women in Hinduism | Women -- Social conditions | Women -- Political activity | Women -- Social conditionsDDC classification: 305.420 RAY

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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: Offers an interpretation of the role that gender played in defining the Indian state during both the colonial and postcolonial eras. Focusing on both British and Indian literary texts - primarily novels - produced between 1857 and 1947, this title examines representations of 'native' Indian women. Read less

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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.

Offers an interpretation of the role that gender played in defining the Indian state during both the colonial and postcolonial eras. Focusing on both British and Indian literary texts - primarily novels - produced between 1857 and 1947, this title examines representations of 'native' Indian women. Read less

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