Ketu H. Katrak is a professor in the department of Asian American studies (Chair, 1996-2004), and the departments of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Wole Soyinka and Modern Tragedy: A Study of Dramatic Theory and Practice and coeditor of Antifeminist Harassment in the Academy.

Arguing that the postcolonial female body itself is constituted as a figure of exile and self-alienation, Katrak projects a transnational feminist solidarity against states of domination or exception, a solidarity that articulates feminist postcolonial theory with anticapitalist and democratic activism. - Samir Dayal (associate professor of English, Bentley College)

• PrefaceAcknowledgments1. Theorizing a Politics of the Female Body: Language and Resistance2. Indigenous Third World Female Traditions of Resistance: A Recuperation of Herstories3. English Education Socializing the Female Body: Cultural Alienations within the Parameters of Race, Class, and Color4. Cultural "Traditions" Exiling the Female Body5. Motherhood DemystifiedConclusionNotes Index

Ketu H. Katrak is a professor in the department of Asian American studies (Chair, 1996-2004), and the departments of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Wole Soyinka and Modern Tragedy: A Study of Dramatic Theory and Practice and coeditor of Antifeminist Harassment in the Academy.

Arguing that the postcolonial female body itself is constituted as a figure of exile and self-alienation, Katrak projects a transnational feminist solidarity against states of domination or exception, a solidarity that articulates feminist postcolonial theory with anticapitalist and democratic activism. - Samir Dayal (associate professor of English, Bentley College)

• PrefaceAcknowledgments1. Theorizing a Politics of the Female Body: Language and Resistance2. Indigenous Third World Female Traditions of Resistance: A Recuperation of Herstories3. English Education Socializing the Female Body: Cultural Alienations within the Parameters of Race, Class, and Color4. Cultural "Traditions" Exiling the Female Body5. Motherhood DemystifiedConclusionNotes Index

Ketu H. Katrak is a professor in the department of Asian American studies (Chair, 1996-2004), and the departments of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Wole Soyinka and Modern Tragedy: A Study of Dramatic Theory and Practice and coeditor of Antifeminist Harassment in the Academy.

Arguing that the postcolonial female body itself is constituted as a figure of exile and self-alienation, Katrak projects a transnational feminist solidarity against states of domination or exception, a solidarity that articulates feminist postcolonial theory with anticapitalist and democratic activism. - Samir Dayal (associate professor of English, Bentley College)

• PrefaceAcknowledgments1. Theorizing a Politics of the Female Body: Language and Resistance2. Indigenous Third World Female Traditions of Resistance: A Recuperation of Herstories3. English Education Socializing the Female Body: Cultural Alienations within the Parameters of Race, Class, and Color4. Cultural "Traditions" Exiling the Female Body5. Motherhood DemystifiedConclusionNotes Index