Dissident Friendships

Feminism, Imperialism, and Transnational Solidarity

Elora Chowdhury, Liz Philipose, Elora Chowdhury

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9780252081880
  9780252040412
• eBook ISBN:
  9780252098833
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Civics & Citizenship
• Index: Social Sciences

Often perceived as unbridgeable, the boundaries that divide humanity from itself--whether national, gender, racial, political, or imperial--are rearticulated through friendship. Elora Halim Chowdhury and Liz Philipose edit a collection of essays that express the different ways women forge hospitality in deference to or defiance of the structures meant to keep them apart. Emerging out of postcolonial theory, the works discuss instances when the authors have negotiated friendship's complicated, conflicted, and contradictory terrain; offer fresh perspectives on feminists' invested, reluctant, and selective uses of the nation; reflect on how the arts contribute to conversations about feminism, dissent, resistance, and solidarity; and unpack the details of transnational dissident friendships. Contributors: Lori E. Amy, Azza Basarudin, Himika Bhattacharya, Kabita Chakma, Elora Halim Chowdhury, Laurie R. Cohen, Esha Niyogi De, Eglantina Gjermeni, Glen Hill, Alka Kurian, Meredith Madden, Angie Mejia, Chandra T. Mohanty, A. Wendy Nastasi, Nicole Nguyen, Liz Philipose, Anya Stanger, Shreerekha Subramanian, and Yuanfang Dai.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part One: Praxis of Friendship
• Part Two: Gender, Nation, Solidarity
• Part Three: Neoliberalism, Ag ency, Friendship
• Part Four: Friendship across Borders
• Contributors
• Index