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Gendered Waysof TransnationalUn-Belongingfrom a ComparativeLiterature Perspective

Gendered Waysof TransnationalUn-Belongingfrom a ComparativeLiterature PerspectiveEdited byIndrani Mukherjee and Java Singh

Gendered Ways of Transnational Un-Belonging from a ComparativeLiterature PerspectiveEdited by Indrani Mukherjee and Java SinghThis book first published 2019Cambridge Scholars PublishingLady Stephenson Library, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2PA, UKBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication DataA catalogue record for this book is available from the British LibraryCopyright 2019 by Indrani Mukherjee, Java Singh and contributorsAll rights for this book reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced,stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means,electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, withoutthe prior permission of the copyright owner.ISBN (10): 1-5275-3056-6ISBN (13): 978-1-5275-3056-0

CONTENTSAcknowledgements .Preface .Part I. Un-Belonging through Displaced Borders‘Women of Colour’ Feminism andPoeticPost-9/11 Ethnic IdDiscourse of Arab-American.Women Writers .Omar Baz RadwanWar, Rebellion,Un-belonging:and the CrisisRepresentationsofof Women in KhaledA ThousandHosseini’sSplendid Suns . 2Abin Chakraborty18th Century Women Travel Writers: Their World, Woand the Spirit of Adventure.Gatha SharmaThe Voice of Rebellion in the Poetryr Lens .of Umpierre52throGursheen GhumanSpace, the Fiftht LiteraryPillar ofCriticism:Feminist BeachMilitanand Erotic Templeore inNarrativesthe Seashossiof Cristina Peri Rand Anuradha Roy .Java SinghPart II. Un-Belonging through the Democratic GlobalFeminism in the Time of Neo-Liberal Women Empowermof Select IndianOnlineTelevision/Advertisements.Kavya Krishna K.R.Indo-Oriental —FromTantraKnowledgein the Westto Commodity:The Recourse of a Privileged.Discourse in the Popul106Ratul Ghosh

viContentsColonial Modernity, Formationentity:of the Nation-StateLocalizing the Identity of AdibhumiBonda.Women124 in PratibhaSarat Kumar JenaMapping Madness when the Moon Smiles:yThe Fashioniand Dis(Order) in the Female Body in Chandani LokugIf the Moon Smiled. 1Tara SenanayakeNew Middle usionof E.Juan Jose CruzPart III. Un-Belonging through Defiant Re-WritingsRevisting Ednay,St.theVincentForgottenMillaAuthoresswho MarkedenerationaG.Ana Abril HernándezFairy Tales ct FTales and Their Film Adaptations.through a Feminis190Eram Shaheen AnsariFrom Damsels-in-Distress to IndomitabledianRebels: WScreen .Sanghita SenMahaswetaImaginaryDevi’sMaps: A Critique of the Native Colonisein Postcolonial India.Pamoda JayaweeraRefiguring of Sita:aran NotesAsan’sonPoeticsKum.of Freedom226Vipin K. KadavathPart IV. Un-Belonging through Defiled BodiesRaped, Mutilated, and Murdered: Gendered Bodies frUniverse.Parichay Patra

Gendered Ways of ture PerspectiveFrom Connoisseurs of Art to Victims of Flesh-TradeWoman’ in ShyamMandiBenegal’s.Sarbani BannerjeeReading the Politicsugh Filmsof Bodyaboutthro”the “Dirty Warin Argentina .Rama PaulReclaiming the VaginaThe throughVagina MonologuesEve Ensler’sand Responsesian Adaptationsin Ind.Anum Fatima and Ariba ZainabReading Nidia Díaz’ Prison Diary as Embodied MatteKaren Barad’sw MaterialismNe.Baishali Choudhuri and Indrani MukherjeeContributors .

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSWe would like to thank Prof. PrasenjitrdinatorSen, Rector,of the university research grantersityunderwiththe projectPotential of Excellence–II),rganizewhich madeait possibYoung Scholars’GenderedConferenceMyths of Conflictonand Unbelonging from August 2-3, 2016. Most of the papers incluversions of the conference presentations.ions fromSome wecolleagues and scholars acrossculationthe globeof in responthe Call for Papers.lso likeWe wouldto thankaarruthersMs. Victoria Cof the Cambridge Scholars Publishinghewho saw in oupotential of this book and offeredto taketothispublish it. Weopportunity to express our gratitudetcher, to Theo MoxhaAdam Rummens, andofthethewholeCSP forteamtheir support.Finally, we thanks andallcopythe editorsreviewerapers.of these p

PREFACEThis book, as the title suggests,ans-nationalis about ‘gendereun-belonging from a comparativeizationliteratureandperspeneoliberal polities have ledomtoallincreasingovernumberthe world to transit south to inlandnorth/east-westorfininternational territories.beingAt thefoughtsame time, battnot only on the borders betweenaste-racenations, ethnicitparadigms but also on a whole setes of new frontierslegitimacy, sexuality, trauma,acesandofterrorism Thethus‘ toisunnot restbelonging(s) related just toosstravel,nations,immigrationbut also plays out through multipolartities, crevices ofspatialities, and chronologiesgendered’withinas‘nations’.asite of precarity, alterity,dispossessedfluidity, lesser, dithough, often, enabling and agency provoking.Most of the authors of this bookacultyare research schmembers of reputed universities from India andparticipants at a Young GenderedScholars’Myths ofConference onConflict and Un-Belonging from a Comparative Literature Perspective(Under Project ―PotentialUniversityofwithorExcellencethe UPE- -- IIII, Project ID 10, JNU), held fromfter,Augustalso 2-3, 2016invited some other scholars anditutionsfacultytomembers frwrite for this volume. All theiewedpapersby haveabeen doubdistinguished scientific committee.The conference was a call to exploreandgendered mytun-belonging against patriarchald misogyny.tropes, social hHowever, when we received all therepapers, we founactually addressingprocesses involvedthe in such alienation and strrather than just interpretingiomsmythsof as such. Un-bpolitical and socio-economic esmemoriesthatencounterdisturb language, geography, towardsand history as habittranslation and erally,comparitivism.theseaces/timespapersGen track spof real/ghost-like hybridityt inis suchforcedways that anyto overcome issuesivalenceof passiveor samenesse,equinstead,to proposa reification of the politicaltheandscopetheofpersonal, tthe study. Consequently thereyeredis a heightenedandsens

xPrefacerhizomic intersections of differentlence at play,kinds of gendeun-weaving therebyistemologies.predictableghThisepunnew and rouweaving, cuts across fixed paradigmsr designsof institution one hand and deconstructs andigmsproblematizesonsaithe other.Thus questions of global and local transnationaddress how the authors work either through reperformatives of their own geo-politicalugh those oflocationforeign ones but,spacesalwaysof sitedtranslocation,sit,inand the trantransnational from where theyaturecan seeof both sides.this book rests on this aspectframingof thetextsauthors’ locafrom a comparative literaturethisandsense.transnational pThe authors in this volume are asuniquethey in their doubiteratively appropriate,and hybridizereject,hegemonicmologies. episteThe double bind of the writershesmodifiestheythe theoreuse. Thus, the book not only providesdjusts itsa reading lenfocal length to cast light differentiallyseeminglyfrom othcomparable headings. Hence thes theytitle of the bookexplore and expunge the idea of un‘gendered ways ofbelonging fromarativea compperspective’.The papers are arranged in four sections: Un-bdisplaced borders, the democraticand defiledglobal, defianbodies. In the first section,rders,Un-belongingallthrougthe five papers/authors trackwithinshifting bordersnations, withoutroughnationsthesnational.tranor thOmar Baz Radwan writese worksaboutof twothArab-Americanwomen poets, Lailam ‘rage’Halaby’sand Angelepoee BlueEllis’s’ ‘ThState Ghazals’.tleTheyandresistinsensitivesubalways of racidiscrimination, in order to exposehe postthe hegemonic9/11 situation and puncture stereotypedst Arab and images ofthe Christian American. Theirs poetryof theirnegotiates sown citizen status, of AmericansfearandandArabs in the Irage of imposed patriotism, etc.ordersWhat we see at plwithout and within/images/consciousness.nationsAbin Chakraborty’s paper takes us to AfghanisHosseini’sA Thousand Splendid Suns, where women were caught in adouble contradiction. While theya resultmourn those who wof fighting against the Russians,regressivethey are pushed bregime of the USan.supported‘Can theTalibwhitebrownman save thewoman from the brownmes aman?’transnationalbecomatter.

Gendered Ways of ure PerspectiveGatha Sharma explores two travelarywritings, Lady MthWollstonecraft’s. Women travellingcentury, whenand writing inany venture into the public sphere’, waswasa consideredvery rare case of breach. Butattheyis inbreakspiteanother borof the orientalist gaze, Lady personalMontagu finds the haspace for women, gveryin themuchEuropeanwantinMaryworld; whileWollstonecraft is fierce in wealthher criticismandof Euroslavery. The Euro-centrics become taintedbordertions.with contradicGursheen Ghuman’s paper argues how the poetry oUmpierre locates the queer ine,trans-locationswhichofbecomes the voice of rebellion.sonalItandnegotiatestherealpublic with respect to one’s xilesexuality,within in terms oheteronormative .knowledgeThe borderssystemsthat her poetrydraws/breaks are fluid and unstablernativeas they advencartographies of bodies and spaces,n-ness ofthus destabildominant narrativess, normativity,of hierarchie. and knowledgesJava Singh positionsfulcrum‘space’to weighastedain on selecwritings of Cristina Peri Rossiheoreticaland Anuradha Roy. Tapproach, built upon the axiomsBakhtin,of Elaine Showalteconcentrates on thethe seashore.portrayal Perioftwo Rossi, withnationalities – Spanish and Uruguayan,er locationis always cat the borders and Roy’s narrativeuts of startsthewith thecreation of a new nation. Singheticalanalyses the playBakhtinian chronotopes of thresholde texts ofand the Gothithese writers. The emergence theof awriterscommon literary tsuggests a gendered alignmentns.through un-belonginThe authors/papers in the secondglobalpartandsit on the ethe local to examinen globallythe breaksmandatedhati on thecircuits tone hand, seek new products andxcludenew markets and on tgroups that do not conform to theirircuits,economic agendimprinted with democratic codes,thea movement fromcentre, such as fromly lessan economicaldevelopedancountry toadvanced one or of the centre totiontheofmargin, such adominant national paradigmsogress.on tribalThepopulationspapers in this section contest the notion of ‘progrKavya Krishna K.R. attempts to ts,understand, throthe paradoxical reconciliationl logicof diametricallyoffeminism and of global capitalism.advertisementsThe paper analysthat were widely discussed andapparentshared on social me‘feminist’ stand point. The “TopsymboliseGirls” in these adthe gender-sensitive attitudeekingto women empowerme

xiiPrefacecorporate entities. However,rtisements,her analysis revealas mouth pieces of global capitalism,cabulary merelyofapprofeminism without any attempt to address its politiRatul Ghosh traces the processesas athat have frametransnational cultural commodity.gh theHis paper explscholarship of numerous religiousthe firstand philosophihalf of the 20thhadcentury,been establishedtantraas an emancipadiscourse to Western materialismcientificby explicating ibody of knowledge. Subsequently,channelscelluloid, mediwere deployed for marketing sexualsh pleasure as aexplores how, in this strategy,in thetheclassconsumer becomof esotericism offered by the global culture indusSarat Kumar Jena gleans the remnantstruct ofof colonialimodernity foisted by the centreentationon the periphery.ofTindigenous societies does notettisonedend when the colonifrom power structures. The exclusionaryted bydemocratthe decolonised nation-stater perpetrateinstitute a local elthe misrepresentation. Jena’sThe Primal Landreading of Pratibh(Adibhumi) reveals that Ray’s construction of the sexwomen propagates a reductive collectiveousidentitcommunity and the translation ofthethe text in Englhegemonic representation of the Bonda to a global rThe last two papers in Part II itingsare commentaries onfrom Australia.viewsTara Senanayakethe Sri Lankan-Australianwriter,Chandani IfLokuge’sthe Moon Smiled as a contributoryelement in theinvention of migrant identitiesybridity.and theThecreation oconvergences betweenl and feministpostcoloniaapproaches,ebywherboth formulations attempt a defenceare broughtof the marginato bear on the ‘mapping’ of theeprotagonist’spaperbodyconsiders the question whetheress”theandprotagonist’stransgression of sexual taboosconfirmare emancipatory othat the migrant woman’s sub-alternas shecondition remmoves from a traditional, lessconomicallydeveloped country toadvanced society.Juan José Cruz studies the enumerationtoll ofof the ineeconomic growthThe White Tiger,in by Aravind Adiga -- the IndoAustralian, Man Booker winnere(2008).novel The epistolestablishes a direct trans-nationaliticallycommunicatiinvisiblepícaro Indianand a global political leader. The lettethe struggl

New Middle Classes in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger: Politics of Exclusion . 158 Juan Jose Cruz Part III. Un-Belonging through Defiant Re-Writings