| My study is a critical analysis of transnational and international feminism and a development of a theoretical and political approach to postcolonial feminist praxis. Theoretically, the work is an analysis of the nation, the postcolonial nation and its implication in the international. Broadly redefining the world today as the partial historical moment of postcoloniality, the study offers the geopolitical region of South Asia as the narrow location for this examination. Starting off with these broad parameters, the study look at the premises of international feminism, the construction of woman and my own postcolonial feminist response to feminist theory and international women's movements. I look at clusters of South Asian women's texts, largely Sri Lankan and Indian and of the South Asian diaspora, literary and non-literary, together with other critical theoretical treatises in order to understand the contradictory politics of international and postcolonial feminist movements. The postcolonial woman as agent and object offers a locus for a re-examination and reconstruction of the global and the local, the national and the international. |
