Acts of Angry Writing: On Citizenship and Orientalism in Postcolonial India

by Alessandra Marino

Analyzes women's activist writings to shed light on contemporary struggles for substantive citizenship in India.

From Aristotle to Seneca, ancient philosophers considered anger to be aggressive and incompatible with rational conduct, and later thinkers associated this "illogical" emotion with femininity and its flaws. In Acts of Angry Writing: On Citizenship and Orientalism in Postcolonial India, author Alessandra Marino...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814340571
• ISBN13: 9780814340578
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"