Mapping the South Asian feminist resistance narrative : from the body to real spaces

• Main Author: Raj, Natasha
• Other Authors: Yong Wern Mei
• Format: Thesis-Master by Research
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2021
• Subjects: Humanities::Literature
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/152014
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This thesis navigates the process through which narratives of gendered violence written by women can come to be narratives of resistance to the treatment of the female body in South Asia. It focusses on two texts by South Asian female writers that span over two decades - What the Body Remembers (...