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Book Summary
"En-Gendering India" offers an innovative interpretation of the role that gender
played in defining the Indian state during both 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
"native" Indian women and shows how these representations were deployed to
advance notions of Indian self-rule as well as to defend British imperialism.
Through her readings of works by writers including Bankimchandra Chatterjee,
Rabindranath Tagore, Harriet Martineau, Flora Annie Steel, Anita Desai, and
Bapsi Sidhaa, Ray demonstrates that Indian women were presented as upper class
and Hindu, an idealization that paradoxically served the needs of both
- ISBN-13
- 9780822324904
- Language
- English
- Binding
- Paper Back
- Publisher
- Duke University Press Books
- Publishing Date
- 2000-06-20
- Total Pages
- 208
En-Gendering India: Woman And Nation In Colonial And Postcolonial Narratives
by Sangeeta Ray (Author),
Duke University Press Books (Publisher)
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Book Summary
"En-Gendering India" offers an innovative interpretation of the role that gender
played in defining the Indian state during both 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
"native" Indian women and shows how these representations were deployed to
advance notions of Indian self-rule as well as to defend British imperialism.
Through her readings of works by writers including Bankimchandra Chatterjee,
Rabindranath Tagore, Harriet Martineau, Flora Annie Steel, Anita Desai, and
Bapsi Sidhaa, Ray demonstrates that Indian women were presented as upper class
and Hindu, an idealization that paradoxically served the needs of both
Book Specifications
- ISBN-13
- 9780822324904
- Language
- English
- Binding
- Paper Back
- Publisher
- Duke University Press Books
- Publishing Date
- 2000-06-20
- Total Pages
- 208