Representation and Resistance: Indian and African Women's Texts at Home and in the Diasporas

by Jaspal Kaur Singh

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1552382451
• ISBN13: 9781552382455
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: University of Calgary Press
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"