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The Psychoanalytical Model Of Research Does Not Offer Any Homogeneity Of Points Of View, Rather A Dialogical Perspective To Suggest Refractions Of Feminist Desire. As The Book Analyses In Detail Family And Community, Mother-Daughter And Father-Daughter Relationships, Along With Marital Relationship, It Also Discusses The Politics Of Gender Representation In Afro-American, British And Indian Cultures. The Author Begins With The Comparative Analysis Of The Male Gaze In The Three Cultures To Discuss The Growth And Development Of Feminist Resistance To The Patriarchal Texts And Subtexts There, And Then Goes On To Discuss The Works Of The Writers And The Stances Taken By Them. Drawing On The Theories Of The French Feminists Along With Jung S Ideas On Sacred Marriage And Deconstruction And Judith Butler S Dream Of Symmetry , The Analysis Foregrounds A New Historicity Which Is Distinctly Non-Linear And Discursive In The Writings Of Toni Morrison, Mich猫le Roberts And Anita Desai. 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style="white-space:nowrap"><span dir=ltr>The Gender </span></span></div></td><td class="toc_number" align=right>84</td></tr><tr><td class="toc_border"> </td><td class="toc_border"></td></tr><tr><td class="toc_entry"><div class="toc_entry"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span dir=ltr>Family and Community </span></span></div></td><td class="toc_number" align=right>122</td></tr><tr><td class="toc_border"> </td><td class="toc_border"></td></tr></table></div></div><div class="second_toc_column"><div class="second_toc_pad"><table><tr><td class="toc_entry"><div class="toc_entry"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span dir=ltr>Gender and Historical Imagination </span></span></div></td><td class="toc_number" align=right>160</td></tr><tr><td class="toc_border"> </td><td class="toc_border"></td></tr><tr><td class="toc_entry"><div class="toc_entry"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span dir=ltr>From Representation </span></span></div></td><td class="toc_number" align=right>195</td></tr><tr><td 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href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=archetypal&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>archetypal</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=attempt&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>attempt</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=becomes&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud7"><span dir=ltr>becomes</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=Beloved&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>Beloved</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=Black+women&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud7"><span dir=ltr>Black women</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=body&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>body</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=Brahmanical&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud5"><span dir=ltr>Brahmanical</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=century&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>century</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=chapter&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud9"><span dir=ltr>chapter</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=characters&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud9"><span dir=ltr>characters</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=child&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud9"><span dir=ltr>child</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=Cholly%27s&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud9"><span dir=ltr>Cholly's</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=Christian&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud9"><span dir=ltr>Christian</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=concept&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>concept</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=consciousness&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud7"><span dir=ltr>consciousness</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=construct&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud9"><span dir=ltr>construct</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=context&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud9"><span dir=ltr>context</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=creative&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>creative</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=cultural&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud2"><span dir=ltr>cultural</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=daughter&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud6"><span dir=ltr>daughter</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=deconstructive&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>deconstructive</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=Delhi&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud4"><span dir=ltr>Delhi</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=desire&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud5"><span dir=ltr>desire</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=dialogical&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>dialogical</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=discourse&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>discourse</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=dream&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud9"><span dir=ltr>dream</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=explores&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>explores</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=father&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud5"><span dir=ltr>father</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=female&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud4"><span dir=ltr>female</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=feminine+psyche&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>feminine psyche</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=feminism&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud4"><span dir=ltr>feminism</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=feminist+criticism&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud6"><span dir=ltr>feminist criticism</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=fiction&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud7"><span dir=ltr>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=Flora&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>Flora</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=Florence+Cook&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud5"><span dir=ltr>Florence Cook</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=Freud&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>Freud</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=gender&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud0"><span dir=ltr>gender</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=girl&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>girl</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=Hayden+White&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud5"><span dir=ltr>Hayden White</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=Helen&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>Helen</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=Helen+Cixous&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud5"><span dir=ltr>Helen Cixous</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=heterogeneity&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>heterogeneity</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=husband&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud7"><span dir=ltr>husband</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=hysterical&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud9"><span dir=ltr>hysterical</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=Ibid&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud6"><span dir=ltr>Ibid</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=idea&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud7"><span dir=ltr>idea</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=identity&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud7"><span dir=ltr>identity</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=imagination&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud9"><span dir=ltr>imagination</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=Indian&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud4"><span dir=ltr>Indian</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=interrogate&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>interrogate</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=Irigaray&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud7"><span dir=ltr>Irigaray</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=issues&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud9"><span dir=ltr>issues</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=Jadine&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>Jadine</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=Jung&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud9"><span dir=ltr>Jung</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=Jungian&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud5"><span dir=ltr>Jungian</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=Kolkata&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud4"><span dir=ltr>Kolkata</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=Kristeva&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud6"><span dir=ltr>Kristeva</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=Lacan&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>Lacan</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=Lacanian&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud5"><span dir=ltr>Lacanian</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=language&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud5"><span dir=ltr>language</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=literary&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud5"><span dir=ltr>literary</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=literature&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud7"><span dir=ltr>literature</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=London&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>London</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=male+gaze&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud4"><span dir=ltr>male gaze</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=Margaret+Garner&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud5"><span dir=ltr>Margaret Garner</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=marriage&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud4"><span dir=ltr>marriage</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=Mary&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud7"><span dir=ltr>Mary</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=masculine&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud6"><span dir=ltr>masculine</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=Maya&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>Maya</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=Mich%C3%A8le+Roberts&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud0"><span dir=ltr>Mich猫le Roberts</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=mirror+stage&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud5"><span dir=ltr>mirror stage</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=Monisha&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>Monisha</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=mother&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud4"><span dir=ltr>mother</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=myth&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>myth</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=narrative&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud5"><span dir=ltr>narrative</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=narrator&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud9"><span dir=ltr>narrator</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=novel&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud5"><span dir=ltr>novel</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=oppression&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud5"><span dir=ltr>oppression</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=pain&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud9"><span dir=ltr>pain</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=patriarchal&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud1"><span dir=ltr>patriarchal</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=perspective&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" class="cloud9"><span dir=ltr>perspective</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=V9Y_tQfm_WgC&q=poems&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=4" 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