Scattered hegemonies : postmodernity and transnational feminist practices
Explores the possibilities of achieving feminist work across cultural divides. This study brings issues of colonialism and post-colonialism into aesthetic debates over postmodernism and culture; it also broadens these debates to include the normally excluded issue of feminist participation.
Print Book, English, 2006
Fifth printing View all formats and editions
University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2006
vii, 261 p. ; 24 cm
9780816621378, 9780816621385, 0816621373, 0816621381
1039887837
Introduction: Transnational feminist practices and questions of postmodernity / Inderpal Grewal and Caren Kaplan
The female body and nationalist discourse : The field of life and death revisited / Lydia Liu
The female body and "transnational" reproduction ; or, rape by any other name? / Mary Layoun
Woman, nation, and narration in Midnight's children / Nalini Natarajan
Betrayal : an analysis in three acts / Kamala Visweswaran
Traddutora, traditora : a paradigmatic figure of Chicana feminism / Norma Alarcón
The politics of location as transnational feminist practice / Caren Kaplan
Crossing the First World/Third World divides : testimonial, transnational feminisms, and the postmodern condition / Robert Carr
Theorizing woman : funü, guojia, jiating (Chinese women, Chinese State, Chinese family) / Tani Barlow
No basta teorizar : in-difference to solidarity in contemporary fiction, theory, and practice / Fred Pfeil
Autobiographic subjects and diasporic locations : Meatless days and Borderlands / Inderpal Grewal