South Asian Women in the Diaspora

Herausgeber: Puwar, Nirmal; Raghuram, Parvati

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on debates on body, performativity and identity, this book looks at the impact of race, gender, class and sexuality upon the everyday lives of South Asian women. South Asian women have frequently been conceptualized in colonial, academic and postcolonial studies, but their very categorization is deeply problematic. This book, informed by theory and enriched by in-depth fieldwork, overturns these unhelpful categorizations and alongside broader issues of self and nation assesses how South Asian identities are "performed." What are the blind spots and erasures in existing studies of both race and gender? In what ways do South Asian women struggle with Orientalist constructions? How do South Asian women engage with 'indo-chic?' What dilemmas face the South Asian female scholar? Questions of knowledge, power, space, body, aesthetics and politics are central to this book, which analyzes the South Asian diaspora in light of the most recent feminist perspectives on gender.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 138mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9781859736968
• ISBN-10: 1859736963
• Artikelnr.: 22019613

Autorenporträt

Nirmal Puwar Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer in Sociology,University College Northampton Parvati Raghuram International Studies Lecturer, Nottingham Trent University

Inhaltsangabe

ContentsAcknowledgementsviiNotes on Contributorsix1(Dis)locating South
Asian Women in the AcademyNirmal Puwar and Parvati Raghuram1Part I South
Asian Women and Paradigmatic (Im)possibilities2Melodramatic Postures and
ConstructionsNirmal Puwar193Still 'In Progress?' - Methodological Dilemmas,
Tensions and Contradictions in Theorizing South Asian Muslim WomenFauzia
Ahmad434Fashioning the South Asian Diaspora: Production and Consumption
TalesParvati Raghuram675Conceptualizing Emigrant Indian Female
Subjectivity: Possible Entry PointsMala Pandurang87Part II Embodying South
Asian Femininities6Romantic Transgressions in the Colonial Zone: Reading
Mircea Eliade's Bengal Nights and Maitreyi Devi's It Does Not DieNandi
Bhatia97 7Undressing the DiasporaBakirathi Mani117 8Re-producing South
Asian Wom(b)en: Female Feticide and the Spectacle of CultureTej Purewal137
9Gendered Embodiments: Mapping the Body-Politic of the Raped Woman and the
Nation in BangladeshNayanika Mookherjee157Part III Engagements10A Kiss is
Just a Kiss. . . Or Is It? South Asian Lesbian and Bisexual Women and the
Construction of SpaceRani Kawale17911'Changing Views': Theory and Practice
in a Participatory Community Arts ProjectSamina Zahir19912South Asian Women
and the Question of Political OrganizationShaminder Takhar21513Engendering
Diasporic IdentitiesHasmita Ramji227Index243