Fashioning the south Asian diaspora: Production and consumption tales

Raghuram, Parvati (2003). Fashioning the south Asian diaspora: Production and consumption tales. In: Puwar, Nirmal and Raghuram, Parvati eds. South Asian Women in the Diaspora. Oxford, UK: Berg, pp. 67–86.

URL: http://www.palgrave-usa.com/catalog/product.aspx?i...

Abstract

About the book: South Asian women have frequently been conceptualized in colonial, academic and postcolonial studies, but their very categorization is deeply problematic. This book, informed by theory and enriched by in-depth fieldwork, overturns these unhelpful categorizations and alongside broader issues of self and nation assesses how South Asian identities are ‘performed’. What are the blind spots and erasures in existing studies of both race and gender? In what ways do South Asian women struggle with Orientalist constructions? How do South Asian women engage with ‘indo-chic?’ What dilemmas face the South Asian female scholar?
With a combination of the most recent feminist perspectives on gender and the South Asian diaspora, questions of knowledge, power, space, body, aesthetics and politics are made central to this book. Building upon a range of experiences and reflecting on the actual conditions of the production of knowledge, South Asian Women in the Disapora represents a challenging contribution to any consideration of gender, race, culture and power.

Viewing alternatives

Look up in Google Scholar
No digital document available to download for this item

Item Actions

Export

About

CORE (COnnecting REpositories)

Recommendations