Abstract
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 223-243 |
| Number of pages | 21 |
| Journal | Public Culture |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 1999 |
| Externally published | Yes |
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An earlier version of this article published in Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, (2) (1997), 1-18.This article also published in M. E. John and J. Nair (Eds.) (1998), A question of silence?: The sexual economies of modern India (pp. 111-138). New Delhi: Kali for Women.
This article also published in D. P. Gaonkar (Ed.) (2001), Alternative modernities (pp. 248-271). Durham: Duke University Press.
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"Left to the imagination" : Indian nationalisms and female sexuality in Trinidad. / NIRANJANA, Tejaswini.
In: Public Culture, Vol. 11, No. 1, 01.01.1999, p. 223-243.Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › Research › peer-review
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AU - NIRANJANA, Tejaswini
N1 - An earlier version of this article published in Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, (2) (1997), 1-18. This article also published in M. E. John and J. Nair (Eds.) (1998), A question of silence?: The sexual economies of modern India (pp. 111-138). New Delhi: Kali for Women. This article also published in D. P. Gaonkar (Ed.) (2001), Alternative modernities (pp. 248-271). Durham: Duke University Press.
PY - 1999/1/1
Y1 - 1999/1/1
N2 - Contrary to appearances, this essay is not about Trinidad or the West Indies; it is primarily an attempt to alter the lens through which we have been accustomed to viewing or framing the emergence of that discursive subject, the modern Indian woman. In analyzing the formation of woman in India, we often use, almost as though by default, the implicit comparisons with Western or metropolitan situations. I want to ask whether our frameworks might look different when the points of reference include other nonmetropolitan contexts. Also, what happens to our terms of comparison when the history of the context being compared with ours is entangled with our own, in ways that have been made invisible in the postcolonial present?
AB - Contrary to appearances, this essay is not about Trinidad or the West Indies; it is primarily an attempt to alter the lens through which we have been accustomed to viewing or framing the emergence of that discursive subject, the modern Indian woman. In analyzing the formation of woman in India, we often use, almost as though by default, the implicit comparisons with Western or metropolitan situations. I want to ask whether our frameworks might look different when the points of reference include other nonmetropolitan contexts. Also, what happens to our terms of comparison when the history of the context being compared with ours is entangled with our own, in ways that have been made invisible in the postcolonial present?
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DO - 10.1215/08992363-11-1-223
M3 - Journal Article (refereed)
VL - 11
SP - 223
EP - 243
JO - Public Culture
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