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Book SynopsisExplores the possibilities of achieving feminist work across cultural divides. This study brings issues of colonialism and post-colonialism into aesthetic debates over postmodernism and culture; it also broadens these debates to include the normally excluded issue of feminist participation.
Table of ContentsIntroduction - 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.
