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En-gendering India : woman and nation in colonial and postcolonial narratives / Sangeeta Ray.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ray, Sangeeta.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Feminism--India--History.
- Feminism.
- Women--India--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Women--Political activity--India.
- Women in Hinduism--India.
- Women in Hinduism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (210 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Explores the relation of gender and nation in postcolonial writing about India.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [186]-194) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612919909
- 9781282919907
- 1282919903
- 9780822382805
- 0822382806
- OCLC:
- 850216024
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