ABSTRACT
The editors are committed to destroying perceptions and stereotypes of third world women as passive victims who need to be "liberated" by Western feminists. The essays address cases in which women have challenged and resisted the political formations-nationalist struggles, revolutions, religious fundamentalist practices, and authoritarian regimes-that shape their daily lives. Each critic presents a close reading of the circumstances under which the feminist writers and film-makers.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |131 pages
The Intervening Configuration: Gender and Feminist Practice
chapter Chapter 1|28 pages
National Identities, Tradition, and Feminism
The Novels of Ama Ata Aidoo Read in the Context of the Works of Kwame Nkrumah
chapter Chapter 3|17 pages
Mother–Country and Fatherland
Re–Membering the Nation in Sara Suleri’s Meatless Days
chapter Chapter 5|17 pages
The Transformation of Nation and Womanhood
Revisionist Mythmaking in the Poetry of Nicaragua’s Gioconda Belli
chapter Chapter 6|21 pages
The Censored Argentine Text
Griselda Gambaro’s Ganarse la Muerte and Reina Roffé’s Monte de Venus
chapter Chapter 7|15 pages
Transgressions
Female Desire and Postcolonial Identity in Contemporary Indian Women’s Cinema
part |110 pages
The Intervening Discourse: Problematizing Transnational Feminist Dialogues
chapter Chapter 8|28 pages
Feminist Critiques of Nationalism and Communalism from Bangladesh and India
A Transnational Reading
chapter Chapter 9|22 pages
Of Tortillas and Texts
Postcolonial Dialogues in the Latin American Testimonial
chapter Chapter 12|18 pages
From Third World Politics to First World Practices
Contemporary Latina Writers in the United States
