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The Identity Politics of Postcolonial Feminism: Strategies of Essentialism

The Identity Politics of Postcolonial Feminism: Strategies of Essentialism

Chakraborty, Mridula Nath

Hardcover

PhilosophyLiterary CriticismWomen's Studies

PREORDER - Expected ship date February 1, 2028

ISBN10: 1785278495
ISBN13: 9781785278495
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: Feb 1 2028
Pages: 250
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.02 Width: 6.02 Depth: 9.02
Language: English

The Identity Politics of Postcolonial Feminism is a first-instance analysis of the strategic essentialisms effected by five postcolonial feminists in the contemporary Anglo-North-American academy: Himani Bannerji, Inderpal Grewal, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Sherene H. Razack and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. The years 1980-2000 are marked by intense debates in hegemonic Anglo-American feminist theory on the issue of sexual differentiation as the determining factor of feminist experience, method, knowledge and practice. Racialised feminists from the constituencies of Black and postcolonial feminisms and of feminisms of colour oppose gendered essentialism on the grounds of their differential locations and oppositional histories of consciousness. In the displaced, diasporic space of white settler colonies, scholars from the third world are invited to and interpellated by the identity politics of women of colour, even as their own class status in their nations of origin combined with a class(-ical) colonial education mitigates against their occupation of the place of the silenced and the marginalised in the knowledge hierarchy of the academy. As postcolonial scholars with substantial histories of their own, they arrive in the metropolitan academy as outsiders to its institutional politics but very much as insiders to its epistemological structures. Postcolonial theorists are thus marked by their origins, both in the geo-political three-worlds schema as well as in their negotiated speaking place in feminism. Here, they perform the paradox of diversity and enact the profound confusion between the public and the private that has characterised our times since the personal became the political.

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