Mridula Nath Chakraborty

The Identity Politics of Postcolonial Feminism

Strategies of Essentialism

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Produktbeschreibung

The Identity Politics of Postcolonial Feminism provides an original analysis of the conceptual categories of essentialisms (situated and strategic) and the politics of location evoked and practised by five hyphenated South Asian postcolonial feminists in the contemporary Anglo-North-American academy: Himani Bannerji, Inderpal Grewal, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Sherene H. Razack and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. 

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 153mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781785278495
• ISBN-10: 1785278495
• Artikelnr.: 61485546

Autorenporträt

Mridula Nath Chakraborty is a literary critic, postcolonial feminist theorist and cultural studies scholar.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; 1. Introduction: Hotfooting Around Essentialism: A Retrospective
Account; 2. Outside in the House of Colour: A Second Look at Postcolonial
and Transnational Feminisms via Chandra Talpade Mohanty and Inderpal
Grewal; 3. Thinking through Visibility: Two 'Minority' Feminists in Canada:
Himani Bannerji and Sherene H. Razack; 4. Everybody's Afraid of Gayatri
Chakravorty Spivak! Interviewing the Postcolonial Critic/Strategic
Feminist/Native Informant; Conclusion: Sites of Contention: At the Movies,
in the Classroom and at the Conferences.