TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ray, Sangeeta
AU  - Ray, Sangeeta
TI  - En-gendering India : : woman and nation in colonial and postcolonial narratives
SN  - 9780822324904
U1  - 305.420 RAY 
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Durham, London 
PB  - :Duke University Press, 
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Groups of people
KW  - Feminism -- India -- History
KW  - Women -- Political activity -- India
KW  - Women -- India -- Social conditions
KW  - Féminisme -- Inde -- Histoire
KW  - Femmes -- Inde -- Conditions sociales
KW  - Femmes dans l'hindouisme
KW  - Women in Hinduism
KW  - Women -- Social conditions
KW  - Women -- Political activity
N1  - 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

N2  - 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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