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En-Gendering India: Woman and Nation in Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives
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- Condition
- Pages
- 208
- Publication Date
- 2000-06-20
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- India
- ISBN
- 9780822324904
- Book Title
- En-Gendering India : Woman and Nation in Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives
- Item Length
- 0.4in
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Publication Year
- 2000
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Genre
- Religion, History, Social Science, Political Science
- Topic
- Feminism & Feminist Theory, Sociology / General, Women in Politics, Hinduism / General, Asia / India & South Asia, Women's Studies
- Item Width
- 0.2in
- Item Weight
- 16.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 208 Pages
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En-Gendering India offers an innovative interpretation of the role that gender played in defining the Indian state during both the colonial and postcolonial eras. Focusing on both British and Indian literary texts--primarily novels--produced between 1857 and 1947, Sangeeta Ray examines representations of "native" Indian women and shows how these representations were deployed to advance notions of Indian self-rule as well as to defend British imperialism. Through her readings of works by writers including Bankimchandra Chatterjee, Rabindranath Tagore, Harriet Martineau, Flora Annie Steel, Anita Desai, and Bapsi Sidhaa, Ray demonstrates that Indian women were presented as upper class and Hindu, an idealization that paradoxically served the needs of both colonial and nationalist discourses. The Indian nation's goal of self-rule was expected to enable women's full participation in private and public life. On the other hand, British colonial officials rendered themselves the protectors of passive Indian women against their "savage" male countrymen. Ray shows how the native woman thus became a symbol for both an incipient Indian nation and a fading British Empire. In addition, she reveals how the figure of the upper-class Hindu woman created divisions with the nationalist movement itself by underscoring caste, communal, and religious differences within the newly emerging state. As such, Ray's study has important implications for discussions about nationalism, particularly those that address the concepts of identity and nationalism. Building on recent scholarship in feminism and postcolonial studies, En-Gendering India will be of interest to scholars in those fields as well as to specialists in nationalism and nation-building and in Victorian, colonial, and postcolonial literature and culture.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Duke University Press
ISBN-10
0822324903
ISBN-13
9780822324904
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1622274
Product Key Features
Book Title
En-Gendering India : Woman and Nation in Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Feminism & Feminist Theory, Sociology / General, Women in Politics, Hinduism / General, Asia / India & South Asia, Women's Studies
Publication Year
2000
Genre
Religion, History, Social Science, Political Science
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
0.4in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
0.2in
Item Weight
16.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Hq1742.R298 2000
Reviews
“ En-Gendering India is a lucid and intelligent study of the play of gender and sexuality in Indian nationalism. Sangeeta Ray cautions against the perception that Hindu nationalism is no longer relevant in an era of globalization and migration, arguing that it has simply entered a more expansive phase. This is an important and timely book.�-Jennifer Sharpe, University of California, Los Angeles, " En-Gendering India is a lucid and intelligent study of the play of gender and sexuality in Indian nationalism. Sangeeta Ray cautions against the perception that Hindu nationalism is no longer relevant in an era of globalization and migration, arguing that it has simply entered a more expansive phase. This is an important and timely book."-Jennifer Sharpe, University of California, Los Angeles, " En-Gendering India is a lucid and intelligent study of the play of gender and sexuality in Indian nationalism. Sangeeta Ray cautions against the perception that Hindu nationalism is no longer relevant in an era of globalization and migration, arguing that it has simply entered a more expansive phase. This is an important and timely book."--Jennifer Sharpe, University of California, Los Angeles, "A significant contribution to postcolonial and feminist studies. Ray's scholarship is rigorous and persuasive, combining theoretical depth and erudition with original and nuanced textual analysis and interpretation."-Rajagopolan Radhakrishnan, University of Massachusetts, "A significant contribution to postcolonial and feminist studies. Ray's scholarship is rigorous and persuasive, combining theoretical depth and erudition with original and nuanced textual analysis and interpretation."--Rajagopolan Radhakrishnan, University of Massachusetts
Table of Content
Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Gender and Nation: Woman Warriors in Chatterjee's Devi Chaudhurani and Anandamath 2. Woman as "Suttee": The Construction of India in Three Victorian Narratives 3. Woman as Nation and a Nation of Women: Tagore's The Home and the World and Hosain's Sultana's Dream 4. New Woman, New Nations: Writing the Partition in Desai's Clear Light of Day and Sidhwa's Cracking India Epilogue Notes Works Cited Index
Copyright Date
2000
Lccn
99-045705
Dewey Decimal
305.42/0954
Dewey Edition
21
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