Outside in the house of colour

a second look at postcolonial and transnational feminisms

Chakraborty

pp. 87-112

in: Nicholas Monk, Mia Lindgren, Sarah McDonald, Sarah Pasfield-Neofitou (eds), Reconstructing identity, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017

Abstract

This chapter examines the development of a South Asian postcolonial feminism or feminisms and the implications of categorizations based on geographic and political location. This trajectory shows the development of identities in relation to specific territories and terminologies of "colour".