Scattered hegemonies : postmodernity and transnational feminist practices
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Scattered hegemonies : postmodernity and transnational feminist practices
University of Minnesota Press, c1994
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Throughout the West, theory - in particular feminist theory - tends either to ignore difference altogether or to lapse into a kind of cultural relativism. Resisting these two moves, the authors here explore the possibilities of achieving feminist work across cultural divides. In doing so, they bring the issues of colonialism and post-colonialism into the typically aesthetic debates over postmodernism and the construction of culture; at the same time, they broaden these debates to include the normally excluded issue of feminist participation. Asking how ideas of postmodernism and post-colonialism are variously deployed by feminists and others in different locations allows the authors to trace the flow of information and theory in transnational cultural production. To this end, they pursue two lines of questioning: What kinds of feminist practices engender theories that resist of the question of modernism? And how do we understand the production and reception of diverse forms of feminism within a framework of transnational social/cultural/economic movements?
Table of Contents
- Introduction - transnational feminist practices and questions of postmodernity, Inderpal Grewal and Caren Kaplan. Part I Locating theory: postmodernism and periphery, Nelly Richard
- notes on the post-colonial, Ella Shohat. Part II Gender, nation and critiques of modernity: the female body and nationalist discourse - the field of life and death revisited, Lydia Liu
- the female body and "transnational" reproduction - or, rape by any other name? Mary Layoun
- woman, nation, and narration in "Midnight's Children", Nalini Natarajan
- the betrayal - an analysis in three acts, Kamala Visweswaran. Part III Global-colonial limits: crossing the first world/third world divides - testimonial, transnational feminisms, and the postmodern condition, Robert Carr
- theorizing woman - "funu", "fuojia", "jiating" (Chinese women, Chinese state, Chinese family), Tani Barlow
- "tradduta, traditora" - a paradigmatic figure of Chicana feminism, Norma Alarcon
- "no basta teorizar" - indifference to solidarity in contemporary fiction, theory, and practice, Fred Pfeil.
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