Women, subalterns, and ecologies in South and Southeast Asian women's fiction / Chitra Sankaran.

"This pioneering study, introducing a corpus of more than thirty ecofictions by women writers from twelve countries in South and Southeast Asia, examines how recent global threats to ecosystems, both in nature and culture, impact subdominant groups, including women. This new corpus reveals how...

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Main Author: Chitra Sankaran, 1959- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2021]
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505 0 0 |t Colonial, postcolonial, and neocolonial ecologies --  |t Women, animals, and animality --  |t Feminized rivers, history, and enchantment --  |t Women, pasts, and the apocalypse --  |t The sacred, the subalterns, women, and literary legacies. 
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