Real and Imagined Women: Gender, Culture and Postcolonialism / Edition 1

by Rajeswari Sunder Rajan

Overview

An essential addition to the postcolonial debate which offers a challenging mode of ‘reading resistance' which destroys the stereotyped and sensationalised humanist image of the ‘third world woman' as victim.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415085038
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/28/1993
Pages:	164
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Rajeswari Sunder Rajan lectures in English at the University of Delhi. She has edited a collection of essays entitled The Lie of the Land: English Literary Studies in India and her work on feminist theory and politics has appeared in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society and The Yale Journal of Criticism.

Table of Contents

Introduction; Chapter 1 THE SUBJECT OF SATI; Chapter 2 REPRESENTING SATI; Chapter 3 LIFE AFTER RAPE; Chapter 4 THE NAME OF THE HUSBAND; Chapter 5 GENDER, LEADERSHIP AND REPRESENTATION; Chapter 6 REAL AND IMAGINED WOMEN; INDEX;