Orientalism and after: impacting feminist theory in India

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Tejaswini Niranjana
Leandra Yunis

Abstract

In this essay, the author discusses the introduction and impact of Edward Said's thinking on the emergence of modern feminist studies in India. Orientalism criticism appears as a vector for reorganizing gender studies and literary criticism in that country, which until then had been deeply influenced by colonialist ideologies and nationalist agendas.

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East- West

Author Biography

Tejaswini Niranjana, University of Lingnan

Professor of Cultural Studies and Director of the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, co-founder of the Bangalore Center for the Study of Culture and Society and visiting professor at the School of Arts and Science at Ahmedabad University, India.

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Orientalism and after: impacting feminist theory in India. EXILIUM Journal of Contemporary Studies, [S. l.], v. 2, n. 3, p. 149–156, 2021. DOI: 10.34024/exilium.v2i1.12886. Disponível em: https://periodicos.unifesp.br/exilium/article/view/12886. Acesso em: 24 sep. 2026.

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