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Confrontational Sites: Cultural Conflicts, Social Inequality and Sexual Politics in the Work of Rukhsana Ahmad.

Focuses on Pakistani British author Rhuksana Ahmad's representation of South Asian women's bodies as sites where racial and class differences are inscribed, and as sites of patriarchal repression and female resistance. Work of Ahmad as a novelist, a playwright and translator; Discussion of how issu...

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Publicado en:Essays & Studies no. 57; pp. 85 - 104
Autores principales: Schlote, Christiane, Parker, Emma
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Boydell & Brewer 2004
Materias:
Ahmad, Rukhsana
South Asian women authors
Women novelists
Class differences
Social conditions of women
Pakistani authors
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Sumario:Focuses on Pakistani British author Rhuksana Ahmad's representation of South Asian women's bodies as sites where racial and class differences are inscribed, and as sites of patriarchal repression and female resistance. Work of Ahmad as a novelist, a playwright and translator; Discussion of how issues of gender, class, culture and nationhood intersect in Ahmad's work; Account of how Ahmad resists discourses about non-Western women as submissive and totally subordinated by a monolithic and unchanging patriarchy.