Virtual Diaspora, Postcolonial Literature and Feminism

This book analyses the resolution of the psychic problem of diasporic existence from a postcolonial feminist perspective and will be of interest to researchers in diaspora studies, postcolonial feminist theory, postcolonial literature, feminist philosophy, interdisciplinary studies and Asian/South Asian Studies.

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Ashmita Khasnabish, former associate of Harvard University s Department of Comparative Literature, currently teaches at Lasell University, MA, USA. A scholar of postcolonial literature and feminist theory, she has published Negotiating Capability and Diaspora: A Philosophical Politics (2013), Humanitarian Identity and Political Sublime: Intervention of a Postcolonial Feminist (2009), and Jouissance as Ananda: Indian Philosophy, Feminist Theory and Literature (2003) and edited Postcoloniality, Diaspora and Globalization: What s Next? (2019).

Inhalt

Preface

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction

2 Pamela Sue Anderson and the Postcolonial Feminist Construct

3 Lahiri's In Other Words in Real and Virtual Diaspora

4 Virtual Diaspora as Embodied in J.M. Coetzee's Youth

5 Virtual Diaspora Conceived Through Japanese Wife

6 Tagore's Kabuliwallah: Is It a Story of Real or Virtual Diaspora or Both?

7 Hèléne Cixous and Virtual Diaspora-Postcolonial Feminism

8 Conclusion

Index