Postnational feminisms
Subtitle: postcolonial identities and cosmopolitanism in the works of Kamala Markandaya, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Ama Ata Aidoo, and Anita Desai
By: Hena Ahmad.
Series: American university studies XXVII: feminist studies -- v. 8
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780820452470
Subjects: Markandaya, Kamala, -- 1924-; Dangarembga, Tsitsi; Desai, Anita, -- 1937-; Aidoo, Ama Ata, -- 1942-; Commonwealth fiction (English) -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Feminism in literature; Postcolonialism in literature; Cosmopolitanism in literature; Women -- Commonwealth countries -- Identity; Nationalism in literature; Feminism and literature -- Commonwealth countries
Description: "Postnational Feminisms: Postcolonial Identities and Cosmopolitanism in the Works of Kamala Markandaya, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Ama Ata Aidoo, and Anita Desai offers a significant contribution to the field of postcolonial and Third World feminist studies. It reevaluates the ways in which Third World women writers interrogate the relationship between woman and nation in the postcolonial context. Hena Ahmad brings forth the concept of "postnational feminism," which she deploys to show how these major writers challenge the role of women as signifiers of national cultures in their works. This innovative concept illuminates the ambivalence of these uniquely positioned writers as Ahmad explores the connection between postnationalism and Third World feminism."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Postcolonial third world feminism and the postnational; title: Woman, nation and culture in Kamala Markandaya's Nectar in a sieve; title: Resisting the colonial and the patriarchal in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous conditions; title: Third world feminism and the nation in Anita Desai's Clear light of day; title: Modes of resistance in Ama Ata Aidoo's Changes.