Gendered Ways of Transnational Un-Belonging from a Comparative Literature Perspective Gendered Ways of Transnational Un-Belonging from a Comparative Literature Perspective Edited by Indrani Mukherjee and Java Singh Gendered Ways of Transnational Un-Belonging from a Comparative Literature Perspective Edited by Indrani Mukherjee and Java Singh This book first published 2019 Cambridge Scholars Publishing Lady Stephenson Library, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2PA, UK British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Copyright © 2019 by Indrani Mukherjee, Java Singh and contributors All 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, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. ISBN (10): 1-5275-3056-6 ISBN (13): 978-1-5275-3056-0 CONTENTS Acknowledgements .................................................................................. viii Preface ........................................................................................................ ix Part I. Un-Belonging through Displaced Borders ‘Women of Colour’ Feminism and Poetic Post-9/11 Ethnic Identity in the Discourse of Arab-American...................... Women Writers ...................... 2 Omar Baz Radwan War, Rebellion, Un-belonging: and the Crisis Representations of of Women in KhaledA Thousand Hosseini’s Splendid Suns .................... 25 Abin Chakraborty 18th Century Women Travel Writers: Their World, World View, and the Spirit of Adventure.................................... ................................... 37 Gatha Sharma The Voice of Rebellion in the Poetryr Lens ... of Umpierre 52 through a Quee Gursheen Ghuman Space, the Fiftht LiteraryPillar of Criticism: Feminist Beach Militan and Erotic Templeore inNarratives the Seashossi of Cristina Peri R and Anuradha Roy ..................................................................................... 69 Java Singh Part II. Un-Belonging through the Democratic Global Feminism in the Time of Neo-Liberal Women Empowerment: A Study of Select IndianOnline Television/ Advertisements..................... ............. 88 Kavya Krishna K.R. Indo-Oriental —FromTantra Knowledge in the West to Commodity: The Recourse of a Privileged................. Discourse in the Popular 106 ......... Ratul Ghosh vi Contents Colonial Modernity, Formationentity: of the Nation-State and Tribal Id Localizing the Identity of AdibhumiBonda ... Women 124 in Pratibha Ray’s Sarat Kumar Jena Mapping Madness when the Moon Smiles:y The Fashioning of Identit and Dis(Order) in the Female Body in Chandani Lokuge’s If the Moon Smiled ................................................................................... 142 Tara Senanayake New Middle ClassesThe in White Aravind Tiger: Adiga’s Politicsxclusion of E ................................................................................ 158 Juan Jose Cruz Part III. Un-Belonging through Defiant Re-Writings Revisting Edna y,St. the Vincent Forgotten Milla Authoress who Markedeneration a G ....................................................................... 176 Ana Abril Hernández Fairy Tales andStructures’: ‘Constraints Remappingairy of Select F Tales and Their Film Adaptations.............. through a Feminist 190 Lens ...... Eram Shaheen Ansari From Damsels-in-Distress to Indomitabledian Rebels: Women on the In Screen ...................................................................................................... 202 Sanghita Sen MahaswetaImaginary Devi’s Maps: A Critique of the Native Coloniser in Postcolonial India....................................... ......................................... 218 Pamoda Jayaweera Refiguring of Sita:aran NotesAsan’s on Poetics Kum........ of Freedom 226 Vipin K. Kadavath Part IV. Un-Belonging through Defiled Bodies Raped, Mutilated, and Murdered: Gendered Bodies from the Diaz Universe ................................................................................................... 242 Parichay Patra Gendered Ways of -BelongingTransnational from Un avii Comparative Literature Perspective From Connoisseurs of Art to Victims of Flesh-Trade: The ‘Other Woman’ in ShyamMandi Benegal’s ....................................................... 254 Sarbani Bannerjee Reading the Politicsugh Films of Body about thro” the “Dirty War in Argentina ............................................................................................. 265 Rama Paul Reclaiming the VaginaThe throughVagina Monologues Eve Ensler’s and Responsesian Adaptations in Ind ........................... ........................... 279 Anum Fatima and Ariba Zainab Reading Nidia Díaz’ Prison Diary as Embodied Matter through Karen Barad’sw Materialism Ne ............................................................. 292 Baishali Choudhuri and Indrani Mukherjee Contributors ............................................................................................. 307 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We would like to thank Prof. Prasenjitrdinator Sen, Rector, JNU and Coo of the university research grantersity under with the project UPE-II (Univ Potential of Excellence–II),rganize which made a it possible for us to o Young Scholars’Gendered Conference Myths of Conflict on and Un- belonging from August 2-3, 2016. Most of the papers included are revised versions of the conference presentations.ions from Some were later addit colleagues and scholars acrossculation the globe of in response to the cir the Call for Papers.lso like We wouldto thank aarruthers Ms. Victoria C of the Cambridge Scholars Publishinghe who saw in our programme t potential of this book and offered to take to this publish it. We would like opportunity to express our gratitudetcher, to Theo Moxham, Hannah Fle Adam Rummens, and of the the whole CSP forteam their support. Finally, we thanks and all copy the editorsreviewerapers. of these p PREFACE This book, as the title suggests,ans-national is about ‘gendered ways of tr un-belonging from a comparativeization literature and perspective’. Global neoliberal polities have ledom to all increasing over numbers of people fr the world to transit south to inlandnorth/east-west or finance-scapes of international territories.being At the fought same time, battles today are not only on the borders betweenaste-race nations, ethnicities or class-c paradigms but also on a whole setes of new frontiers such as issu legitimacy, sexuality, trauma,aces and of terrorism amidst widening sp law-and-orderlytransnational’ societies.ricted The thus ‘ to is un- not rest belonging(s) related just tooss travel, nations, immigration, and exile acr but also plays out through multipolartities, crevices of gendered iden spatialities, and chronologiesgendered’ within as ‘nations’. a It addresses ‘ site of precarity, alterity, dispossessed fluidity, lesser, disadvantaged or though, often, enabling and agency provoking. Most of the authors of this bookaculty are research scholars and/or f members of reputed universities from India and abroad who were participants at a Young GenderedScholars’ Myths of Conference on Conflict and Un-Belonging from a Comparative Literature Perspective (Under Project ― Potential University of with orExcellence the UPE- -- II II, Project ID 10, JNU), held fromfter, August also 2-3, 2016. We, therea invited some other scholars anditutions faculty to members from other inst write for this volume. All theiewed papers by havea been double peer rev distinguished scientific committee. The conference was a call to explore and gendered myths of conflict un-belonging against patriarchald misogyny. tropes, social hierarchies, an However, when we received all there papers, we found that they we actually addressingprocesses involved the in such alienation and struggle rather than just interpretingioms myths of as such. Un-belonging in id political and socio-economic esmemories that encounter certain slippag disturb language, geography, towardsand history as habit making a push translation and erally,comparitivism. theseaces/times papers Gen track sp of real/ghost-like hybridityt inis suchforced ways that any comparativis to overcome issuesivalence of passive or samenesse, equ instead, to propos a reification of the politicalthe and scope the of personal, thus widening the study. Consequently thereyered is a heightenedand sense of multi-la x Preface rhizomic intersections of differentlence at play, kinds of gender related vio un-weaving therebyistemologies. predictable ghThis ep un- new and rou weaving, cuts across fixed paradigmsr designs of institutionalized gende on one hand and deconstructs andigms problematizes on said fixed parad the other. Thus questions of global and local transnationalism in our book address how the authors work either through representations or performatives of their own geo-politicalugh those of location or often thro foreign ones but, spaces always of sitedtranslocation,sit, in and the tran transnational from where theyature can see of both sides. The unique fe this book rests on this aspectframing of the texts authors’ locations, thus from a comparative literaturethis and sense. transnational perspective in The authors in this volume are asunique they in their double operation iteratively appropriate,and hybridize reject, hegemonicmologies. episte The double bind of the writershes modifies they the theoretical approac use. Thus, the book not only