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- Title: Globalization, Transnationalism, And Identity Politics in South Asian Women's Texts.
- Author : Michigan Academician
- Release Date : January 22, 2003
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
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How do women of the South Asian diaspora, some of whom have never been to their "home" country, negotiate gender identity and empowerment in shifting territories of the First and Third World diasporic spaces when they are first displaced from their "home" cultures and then alienated in another? Transnational women grapple with issues of displacement and race redoubling (as Indians, Asians, Africans, or blacks) in the United Kingdom and the United States of America, where ideas of diversity and multicuhuralism as opposed to difference prevail (Bhabha 1994, 34). How do we read marginal writings with their cultural border crossing, where meanings, as Bhabha claims, are never complete or are "open to cultural translation" (Bhabha, 162-3), especially for Indian women who are negotiating an ambiguous territory, all the while retaining or "dragging" their sense of "Indianness-in-motions" (Appadurai, 10)? My paper examines the poetics of resistance to gendered identity formations in the texts of women of the South Asian diaspora and their connections to India and Africa. How are racial and ethnic identities constructed within such diasporic spaces in an era of globalization with its transnational cultural flows ? This in turn leads to a discussion of how such constructions impact the gender and national identity formation of diasporic Indian women.
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