Interventions: Feminist Dialogues on Third World Women's Literature and Film
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.
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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.BooknewsAn anthology of 12 essays representing "third world" women writers and film-makers from a localized perspective, intervening (as the title tells us) in the dominant view that third world women are passive victims needing to be liberated by Western feminists. Turning the tables on intellectual colonialism, the contributing scholars discuss the ways particular artists in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean use their marginal positions to challenge and resist different political structures, including nationalism, revolutions, religious fundamentalism, and dictatorships. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Series Editor's ForewordPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Feminist Interventions and Locational PoliticsNational Identities, Tradition, and Feminism: The Novels of Ama Ata Aidoo Read in the Context of the Works of Kwame Nkrumah3Nationalism and Feminism in the Writings of Santa Devi and Sita Devi31Mother-Country and Fatherland: Re-Membering the Nation in Sara Suleri's Meatless Days45Race, Gender, and the Caribbean Narrative of Revolution63The Transformation of Nation and Womanhood: Revisionist Mythmaking in the Poetry of Nicaragua's Gioconda Belli79The Censored Argentine Text: Griselda Gambaro's Ganarse la Muerte and Reina Roffe's Monte de Venus97Transgressions: Female Desire and Postcolonial Identity in Contemporary Indian Women's Cinema119Feminist Critiques of Nationalism and Communalism from Bangladesh and India: A Transnational Reading135Of Tortillas and Texts: Postcolonial Dialogues in the Latin American Testimonial163Writing the Difference: Feminists' Invention of the "Arab Woman"185Third World Women's Cinema: If the Subaltern Speaks, Will We Listen?213From Third World Politics to First World Practices: Contemporary Latina Writers in the United States227List of Contributors245Index247
\ BooknewsAn anthology of 12 essays representing "third world" women writers and film-makers from a localized perspective, intervening (as the title tells us) in the dominant view that third world women are passive victims needing to be liberated by Western feminists. Turning the tables on intellectual colonialism, the contributing scholars discuss the ways particular artists in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean use their marginal positions to challenge and resist different political structures, including nationalism, revolutions, religious fundamentalism, and dictatorships. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.\ \
