En-gendering India woman and nation in colonial and postcolonial narratives

Extrait de la couverture : "[This document] offers an innovative iinterpretation of the role that gender played in defining the Indian state during the colonial and postcolonial eras. Focusing on both British and Indian literary texts - primarily novels - produced between 1857 and 1947, Sangeet...

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1. Verfasser: Ray, Sangeeta (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Durham u.a. Duke Univ. Press 2000
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Zusammenfassung:Extrait de la couverture : "[This document] offers an innovative iinterpretation of the role that gender played in defining the Indian state during 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 'natice' Indian women and shos how these representations were deployed to advance notions of Indian self-rule as well as to defend British imperialism. Through her readings [...], [the author] demonstrates that Indian women were presented as upper class and Hindu, an idealization that paradocically served the needs of both colonial and nationalist discourses."
Beschreibung:VIII, 198 S.
ISBN:0822324903
0-8223-2490-3
0822324539
0-8223-2453-9