Left to the Imagination

Indian Nationalisms and Female Sexuality in Trinidad

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ID2964038
AuthorsTejaswini Niranjana (0000-0001-5052-3000, corresponding author)
Year1999
Volume11
Issue1
Pages223-243
Publication date1999-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePublic Culture (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0899-2363 • E-ISSN: 1527-8018
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/08992363-11-1-223
OpenAlexW1964296831
LanguageEN
Citations received20

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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