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Dislocating Cultures: Identities, Traditions, and Third World Feminism

Dislocating Cultures: Identities, Traditions, and Third World Feminism

Narayan, Uma

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Series: Thinking Gender

PhilosophyAnthropologyWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0415914191
ISBN13: 9780415914192
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 23 1997
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.03 Depth: 9.04
Language: English
Dislocating Cultures takes aim at the related notions of nation, identity, and tradition to show how Western and Third World scholars have misrepresented Third World cultures and feminist agendas. Drawing attention to the political forces that have spawned, shaped, and perpetuated these misrepresentations since colonial times, Uma Narayan inspects the underlying problems which culture poses for the respect of difference and cross-cultural understanding.

Questioning the problematic roles assigned to Third World subjects within multiculturalism, Narayan examines ways in which the flow of information across national contexts affects our understanding of issues. Dislocating Cultures contributes a philosophical perspective on areas of ongoing interest such as nationalism, post-colonial studies, and the cultural politics of debates over tradition and westernization in Third World contexts.

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