Preface; Postcolonial Women Writers & Their Cultural Productions; Dominant Epistemologies & Alternative Readings: Gender & Globalisation; The Indian Diasopra & Cultural Alienation in Bharati Mukherjee's Texts; Postcoloniality & Indian Female Sexuality in Aparna Sen's Film Parama; Educational Debates & the Postcolonial Female Imagination in Mariama Bd's So Long a Letter; The Diasporic Search for Cultural Belonging in Myriam Warner-Vieyra's Juletane; Maddening Inscriptions & Contradictory Subjectivities in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions; Globalism & Transnationalism: Cultural Politics in the Texts of Mira Nair, Gurinder Chadha, Agnes Sam & Farida Karodia; Queering Diaspora in Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night, Nisha Ganatra's Chutney Popcorn & Deepa Mehta's Fire; Transnationalism & the Politics of Representation in the Texts of Meena Alexander, Gurinder Chadha, Zainab Ali & Samina Ali; Conclusion: The Politics of Location and Postcolonial/Transnational Feminist Critical Practices; Index.
Darrell Varga is Canada Research Chair in Contemporary Film and Media Studies at NSCAD University (Nova Scotia College of Art and Design), where he teaches courses in film history, documentary film, and Canadian cinema. He has published widely on Canadian cinema and is the co-editor of Working on Screen: Representations of the Working Class in Canadian Cinema. Darrell Varga is Canada Research Chair in Contemporary Film and Media Studies at NSCAD University (Nova Scotia College of Art and Design), where he teaches courses in film history, documentary film, and Canadian cinema. He has published widely on Canadian cinema and is the co-editor of Working on Screen: Representations of the Working Class in Canadian Cinema. Malek Khouri is associate professor and director of the Film Program at the American University in Cairo. He is co-editor of Working on Screen: Representations of the Working Class in Canadian Cinema and author of The Arab National Project in Youssef Chahine's Cinema. Jerry White is Canada Research Chair in European Studies at Dalhousie University. He is the author of The Radio Eye: Cinema in the North Atlantic, 1958-1988 and Of This Place and Elsewhere: The Films and Photography of Peter Mettler, editor of The Cinema of Canada, and co-editor of North of Everything: English-Canadian Cinema since 1980.
"This is an exciting new collection sure to create ripples throughout Canadian film studies ... an important new addition to the literature on Canadian screen culture." -- Zoe Druick, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University
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