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Social Science Women's Studies

Representation and Resistance

South Asian and African Women’s Texts at Home and in the Diaspora

by (author) Jaspal Kaur Singh

Publisher
University of Calgary Press
Initial publish date
Oct 2008
Category
Women's Studies
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781552382677
    Publish Date
    Oct 2008
    List Price
    $34.95

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Representation and Resistance: South Asian and African Women's Texts at Home and in the Diaspora compares colonial and national constructions of gender identity in Western-educated African and South Asian women's texts.

Jaspal Kaur Singh argues that, while some writers conceptualize women's equality in terms of educational and professional opportunity, sexual liberation, and individualism, others recognize the limitations of a paradigm of liberation that focuses only on individual freedom. Certain diasporic artists and writers assert that transformation of gender identity construction occurs, but only in transnational cultural spaces of the first world-spaces which have emerged in an era of rampant globalization and market liberalism. In particular, Singh advocates the inclusion of texts from women of different classes, religions, and castes, both in the Global North and in the South.

About the author

Jaspal Kaur Singh is a professor in the Department of English at Northern Michigan University, where she teaches courses in postcolonial and world literatures.

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