04541nam 2200817Ia 450 991077765310332120230828211001.01-280-94707-197866109470720-8135-3930-710.36019/9780813539300(CKB)1000000000464990(EBL)966960(OCoLC)744987199(SSID)ssj0000224153(PQKBManifestationID)11191272(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000224153(PQKBWorkID)10205536(PQKB)10139451(MiAaPQ)EBC966960(OCoLC)71844106(MdBmJHUP)muse21301(DE-B1597)528948(DE-B1597)9780813539300(Au-PeEL)EBL966960(CaPaEBR)ebr10132093(CaONFJC)MIL94707(EXLCZ)99100000000046499020050422d2006 ub 0engurun#---|u||utxtccrPolitics of the female body[electronic resource] postcolonial women writers of the Third World /Ketu H. KatrakPiscataway, N.J. ;London Rutgers University Press20061 online resource (326 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8135-3714-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-277) and index.Front matter --CONTENTS --PREFACE --ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --1. Theorizing a Politics of the Female Body: Language and Resistance --2. Indigenous Third World Female Traditions of Resistance: A Recuperation of Herstories --3. English Education Socializing the Female Body: Cultural Alienations within the Parameters of Race, Class, and Color --4. Cultural “Traditions” Exiling the Female Body --5. Motherhood Demystified --Conclusion --Notes --IndexIs it possible to simultaneously belong to and be exiled from a community? In Politics of the Female Body, Ketu H. Katrak argues that it is not only possible, but common, especially for women who have been subjects of colonial empires. Through her careful analysis of postcolonial literary texts, Katrak uncovers the ways that the female body becomes a site of both oppression and resistance. She examines writers working in the English language, including Anita Desai from India, Ama Ata Aidoo from Ghana, and Merle Hodge from Trinidad, among others. The writers share colonial histories, a sense of solidarity, and resistance strategies in the on-going struggles of decolonization that center on the body. Bringing together a rich selection of primary texts, Katrak examines published novels, poems, stories, and essays, as well as activist materials, oral histories, and pamphlets—forms that push against the boundaries of what is considered strictly literary. In these varied materials, she reveals common political and feminist alliances across geographic boundaries. A unique comparative look at women’s literary work and its relationship to the body in third world societies, this text will be of interest to literary scholars and to those working in the fields of postcolonial studies and women’s studies.Commonwealth literature (English)Women authorsHistory and criticismWomenCommonwealth countriesIntellectual lifeWomenDeveloping countriesIntellectual lifeFeminism and literatureCommonwealth countriesFeminism and literatureDeveloping countriesWomen and literatureCommonwealth countriesWomen and literatureDeveloping countriesPostcolonialism in literatureHuman body in literatureWomen in literatureCommonwealth literature (English)Women authorsHistory and criticism.WomenIntellectual life.WomenIntellectual life.Feminism and literatureFeminism and literatureWomen and literatureWomen and literaturePostcolonialism in literature.Human body in literature.Women in literature.820.9928709171241Katrak Ketu H243501MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910777653103321Politics of the female body3778130UNINA