in:
New York [u.a.]:
1996
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277 - 292 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Bhattacharya, Nandini |
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| Jahr: | 1996 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| European women in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century India were usually banished from public or political activity by colonial patriarchy, but if politics is also enacted in various non-governmental arenas, it is evident that the domestic parlor, the kitchen, the servants' quarters, and other physical spaces that colonial women managed would also become spaces where colonial ideology was constructed and modified. This paper explores the construction of a bourgeois domestic ideology as an alternative voice within colonialist patriarchy, and at the inscription of the subaltern female body as a metonymix text of subaltern conspiracy and treachery. A bourgeois ethnographic tradition of looking at the subaltern female body finds articulation in Aphra Behn's "Oroonoko (1688)" and in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's (Halsband, 1965) "Letters form the levant (1716-1718)". Keeping this tradition in mind, this paper will look specifically at the ethnographic body cirticisms of Mrs. Kindersley, Mrs. Eliza Fay, and Mrs. Mary Sherwood. the public eastern woman appeared in many cultural contexts in the east, but in this paper she essentially signifies the eastern dancer - the nautch or tamasha girl - whose profession was frequently and unhesitatingly associated with sex work, and the Indian female domestic servant. the private woman on the other hand was the inhabitant of the zenana or the harem (the women's quarters).... | |
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