EAN: 9789811070648

THE SOUTHEAST ASIAN WOMAN WRITES BACK GEBUNDEN

This collection of essays examines how Southeast Asian women writers engage with the grand
narratives of nationalism and the modern nation-state by exploring the representations of
gender  identity and nation in the postcolonial literatures of Brunei Darussalam  Malaysia 
Singapore  Indonesia  and the Philippines. Bringing to light the selected works of overlooked
local women writers and providing new analyses of those produced by internationally-known women
authors and artists  the essays situate regional literary developments within historicized
geopolitical landscapes to offer incisive analyses and readings on how women and the feminine
are imagined  represented  and positioned in relation to the Southeast Asian nation.The book 
which features both cross-country comparative analyses and country-specific investigations 
also considers the ideas of the nation and the state by investigating related ideologies 
rhetoric  apparatuses  and discourses  and the ways in which they affect women¿s bodies 
subjectivities  and lived realities in both historical and contemporary Southeast Asian
contexts. By considering how these literary expressions critique  contest  or are complicit in
nationalist projects and state-mandated agendas  the collection contributes to the overall
regional and comparative discourses on gender  identity and nation in Southeast Asian studies.

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