Politics of Friendship (2006) and Elora Chowdhury and Liz Philipose's edited volume
Dissident Friendships: Feminism, Imperialism, and Transnational Solidarity (2016). Mirza's …

South Asian Women's Fiction begin their feminist studies of South Asian women's writing
with the figure of intimacy. These two studies are much-needed breakthrough surveys of, in …

The literary representation of love, friendship, and intimacy should not be seen as an escape
from contemporary politics. Rather, scenes of intimacy can be charged with pressing social …

The economically privileged Lenny is able to taste the forbidden delights of the adult world
because of her ayah. The romantic relationship between Sai, an upper-class Gujarati girl …

In Post-Colonial Studies: The Key Concepts, Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin
have defined the term “subaltern” as people belonging to “those groups in society who are …

This dissertation argues that friendship can enliven the revolutionary humanist politics of
twentieth century anticolonial movements. Twenty-first century nationalism, including that of …

Disenfranchised as sexual objects, communal commodities, and patriarchal property, by
both the nation-state and their relations, hundredsof thousands of South Asian women …

Deepti Misri's book Beyond Partition: Gender, Violence, and Representation in Postcolonial
India is a fresh and important intervention. It contributes to ongoing conversations in the field …

Sisterhood as a fountainhead of women empowerment is a widespread motif in popular
feminist discourse around the globe. Though feminist critics differ in their opinions about the …

This dissertation examines the concept of postcolonial indifference at play in three
contemporary novels by female writers: Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things (1997) …