The Politics of the Female Body: Postcolonial Women Writers

by Ketu H. Katrak

Book Overview

Is it possible to simultaneously belong to and be exiled from a community? In Politics of the Female Body, Ketu H. Katrak argues that it is not only possible, but common, especially for women who have been subjects of colonial empires.

Through her careful analysis of postcolonial literary texts, Katrak uncovers the ways that the female body becomes a site of both oppression and resistance. She examines writers working in the English...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813537150
• ISBN13: 9780813537153
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"