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
University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2006
vii, 261 pages ; 23 cm
9780816621378, 9780816621385, 0816621373, 0816621381
685103673
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
Originally published: 1994