South Asian Women in the Diaspora
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Drawing on debates on body, performativity and identity, this book looks at the impact of race, gender, class and sexuality upon the everyday lives of South Asian women. South Asian women have frequently been conceptualized in colonial, academic and postcolonial studies, but their very categorization is deeply problematic. This book, informed by theory and enriched by in-depth fieldwork, overturns these unhelpful categorizations and alongside broader issues of self and nation assesses how South Asian identities are "performed." What are the blind spots and erasures in existing studies of both ...
Drawing on debates on body, performativity and identity, this book looks at the impact of race, gender, class and sexuality upon the everyday lives of South Asian women. South Asian women have frequently been conceptualized in colonial, academic and postcolonial studies, but their very categorization is deeply problematic. This book, informed by theory and enriched by in-depth fieldwork, overturns these unhelpful categorizations and alongside broader issues of self and nation assesses how South Asian identities are "performed." What are the blind spots and erasures in existing studies of both race and gender? In what ways do South Asian women struggle with Orientalist constructions? How do South Asian women engage with 'indo-chic?' What dilemmas face the South Asian female scholar? Questions of knowledge, power, space, body, aesthetics and politics are central to this book, which analyzes the South Asian diaspora in light of the most recent feminist perspectives on gender.
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