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Beyond the Nation: Third World Women's Identity Politics and the Production of Glocality - Softcover

Debian, Riham

 
9783639710878: Beyond the Nation: Third World Women's Identity Politics and the Production of Glocality

Synopsis

Beyond the Nation deals with Third World women’s literary and cinematic intervention in the gendered discourse of the nation through a multicultural feminist reading of Monica Ali’s Brick Lane (2003), Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus (2004) and Marziyeh Meshkini’s film The Day I Became a Woman (2000). The book argues for the texts’ production of the discourse of post-gendered nationalism and glocal national identity through subverting the binary logic of nationalist/fundamentalist and imperialist discourses, and charting a synthesis between silence/ speech, private/public, feminine/feminist and local/global.

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About the Author

Riham E.A. Debian is a Lecturer in Alexandria University, Egypt. Her M.A. thesis deals with Arab women's feminism. Her PhD tackles the question of the gender politics of nationalism/fundamentalism and globalization. She participated in a number of international conferences and workshops. She is currently working on the gender politics of Islamism.

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