How can the women-as-victim be read as a resisting subject? Real and Imagined Women explores the position of the female subject in a postcolonial state. Rajeswari Sunder Rajan investigates the problematic relationship between the theory of the first world against the matter of the third - that is, she brings postcolonial theory to bear on the politics of gender, religion and the culture of contemporary India, focusing on the practice and the representaion of sati. Her writing engages with such subjects as pre-colonial Tamil and Indian texts and colonial imperialist texts; Indian writings and...

How can the women-as-victim be read as a resisting subject? Real and Imagined Women explores the position of the female subject in a postcolonial state. Rajeswari Sunder Rajan investigates the problematic relationship between the theory of the first world against the matter of the third - that is, she brings postcolonial theory to bear on the politics of gender, religion and the culture of contemporary India, focusing on the practice and the representaion of sati. Her writing engages with such subjects as pre-colonial Tamil and Indian texts and colonial imperialist texts; Indian writings and...