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South Asian Women in the Diaspora by Nirmal Puwar; Parvati Raghuram (editors) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is South Asian Women in the Diaspora about?

South Asian women have frequently been conceptualized in colonial, academic and postcolonial studies, but their very categorization is deeply problematic. This book, informed by theory and enriched by in-depth fieldwork, overturns these unhelpful categorizations and alongside broader issues of self and nation assesses how South Asian identities are 'performed'. What are the blind spots and erasures in existing studies of both race and gender? In what ways do South Asian women struggle with Orientalist constructions? How do South Asian women engage with 'indo-chic?' What dilemmas face the South Asian female scholar? With a combination of the most recent feminist perspectives on gender and the South Asian diaspora, questions of knowledge, power, space, body, aesthetics and politics are made central to this book. Building upon a range of experiences and reflecting on the actual conditions of the production of knowledge, South Asian Women in the Disapora represents a challenging contribution to any consideration of gender, race, culture and power.

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Author

Nirmal Puwar; Parvati Raghuram (editors)

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9781859736029

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Anthropology, Science, Language Learning