Interventions: Feminist Dialogues on Third World Women's Literature and Film

by Bishnupriya Ghosh (Editor), Brinda Bose (Editor)

Overview

The editors are committed to destroying perceptions and stereotypes of third world women as passive victims who need to be "liberated" by Western feminists. The essays address cases in which women have challenged and resisted the political formations-nationalist struggles, revolutions, religious fundamentalist practices, and authoritarian regimes-that shape their daily lives. Each critic presents a close reading of the circumstances under which the feminist writers and film-makers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135598570
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/15/2019
Series:	Gender, Culture and Global Politics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	292
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Brinda Bose. Bishnupriya Ghosh is Professor of English and affiliated faculty in the departments of Film and Media Studies, Comparative Literature, and Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of When Borne Across: Literary Cosmopolitics in the Contemporary Indian Novel.

Table of Contents

The Intervening Configuration: Gender and Feminist Practice: National Identities, Tradition, and Feminism: The Novels of Ama Ata Aidoo Read in the Context of the Works of Kwame Nkrumah, Nationalism and Feminism in the Writings of Santa Devi and Sita Devi, Mother-Country and Fatherland: Re-Membering the Nation in Sara Suleri's Meatless Days, Race, Gender, and the Caribbean Narrative of Revolution, The Transformation of Nation and Womanhood: Revisionist Mythmaking in the Poetry of Nicaragua's Gioconda Belli, The Censored Argentine Text: Griselda Gambaro's Ganarse la Muerte and Reina Roffe's, Transgressions: Female Desire and Postcolonial Identity in Contemporary Indian Women’s Cinema, The Intervening Discourse: Problematizing Transnational Feminist Dialogues: Feminist Critiques of Nationalism and Communalism from Bangladesh and India: A Transnational Reading, Of Tortillas and Texts: Postcolonial Dialogues in the Latin American Testimonial, Writing the Difference: Feminists’ Invention of the "Arab Woman", Third World Women's Cinema: If the Subaltern Speaks, Will We Listen?, From Third World Politics to First World Practices: Contemporary Latina Writers in the United States

Editorial Reviews

An anthology of 12 essays representing "third world" women writers and film-makers from a localized perspective, intervening (as the title tells us) in the dominant view that third world women are passive victims needing to be liberated by Western feminists. Turning the tables on intellectual colonialism, the contributing scholars discuss the ways particular artists in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean use their marginal positions to challenge and resist different political structures, including nationalism, revolutions, religious fundamentalism, and dictatorships. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Booknews

"The volume is a significant addition to the powerful body of work on Third World feminist theory and textual practice. The large number of essays on South Asia and Latin America offer a comparative scope hitherto unavailable in a single volume." — Women:A Cultural Review

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