En-gendering India : woman and nation in colonial and postcolonial narratives
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En-gendering India : woman and nation in colonial and postcolonial narratives
Duke University Press, 2000
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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 colonial and nationalist discourses. The Indian nation's goal of self-rule was expected to enable women's full participation in private and public life. On the other hand, British colonial officials rendered themselves the protectors of passive Indian women against their "savage" male countrymen. Ray shows how the native woman thus became a symbol for both an incipient Indian nation and a fading British Empire. In addition, she reveals how the figure of the upper-class Hindu woman created divisions with the nationalist movement itself by underscoring caste, communal, and religious differences within the newly emerging state. As such, Ray's study has important implications for discussions about nationalism, particularly those that address the concepts of identity and nationalism.
Building on recent scholarship in feminism and postcolonial studies, En-Gendering India will be of interest to scholars in those fields as well as to specialists in nationalism and nation-building and in Victorian, colonial, and postcolonial literature and culture.
目次
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Gender and Nation: Woman Warriors in Chatterjee's Devi Chaudhurani and Anandamath
2. Woman as "Suttee": The Construction of India in Three Victorian Narratives
3. Woman as Nation and a Nation of Women: Tagore's The Home and the World and Hosain's Sultana's Dream
4. New Woman, New Nations: Writing the Partition in Desai's Clear Light of Day and Sidhwa's Cracking India
Epilogue
Notes
Works Cited
Index
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