Gender, Place, and Identity of South Asian Women
- 7h 13m
- Moussa Pourya Asl
- IGI Global
- 2022
In the past century, South Asia underwent fundamental cultural, social, and political changes as many countries progressed from colonial dominations through nationalist movements to independence. These transformations have been intricately bound up with the spatiality of social life in the region, drawing further attention to the significance of social spaces within transformative politics and identity formations.
Gender, Place, and Identity of South Asian Women studies contemporary literature of South Asian women with a focus on gender, place, and identity. It contributes to the debate on gender identity and equality, spatial and social justice, women empowerment, marginalization, and anti-discrimination measures. Covering topics such as partition memory narrative, spatial mobility, and diasporic women’s lives, this book is an essential resource for students and educators of higher education, researchers, activists, government officials, business leaders, academicians, feminist organizations, sociologists, and researchers.
About the Author
Moussa Pourya Asl is a Senior Lecturer in literary studies at Universiti Sains Malaysia, where he also obtained his PhD (English Literature) from School of Humanities. His primary research area is in diasporic literature and gender and cultural studies, and he has published several articles in the above-mentioned areas in Women's Studies, Gender, Place & Culture, Asian Ethnicity, American Studies in Scandinavia, Cogent: Arts & Humanities, Gema Online, and 3L.
In this Book
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(Dis)Locating Homeland—Border(Home)Land in Taslima Nasreen’s French Lover and Monica Ali’s Brick Lane
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Spatial Mobility, Pakistani Muslim Female Subjectivity, and Third-Space between the Secular and the Religious in Kamila Shamsie’s Broken Verses
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The Partition—A Heterotopic Transcendence in Self-Identity of the Bengali Women Migrants
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Identity, Roles, and Choices within the Space of the “Home” in Vijay Tendulkar’s Kamala
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The Maternal Presence in Diasporic Women’s Lives in the Works of Amulya Malladi and Chitra Bannerjee Divakaruni—A Focus on Gender, Identity, and Place
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Gender and Space in Flux in Anukrti Upadhyay’s Bhaunri
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Rewriting of Gender and Sexuality in Tanwi Nandini Islam’s Bright Lines—A Cixousian Approach
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Afghan Women Authors’ Discourses of Resistance—Contesting Interplay between Gender, Place, and Identity
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Construction and Reconstruction of Space and Identity—An Analysis of Jasvinder Sanghera’s Shame Travels
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Spaces of Wrath—Fractured Identities, Violated Bodies, and Silent Women in the Fiction of Shashi Deshpande
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Uncovering the Veiled Experiences—Women, Memories, and the Bangladesh Liberation War
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Quest for Space and Identity of the East Indian Diasporic Female Laborers—The Selected Poems of Ramabai Espinet’s Nuclear Seasons
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Recreating “Home” in Exile—Unfamiliar Terrain, Gender, and Identity – Immigrant Women’s Writings in Nineteenth Century India
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Compilation of References
