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Article: On the Outside Looking In(dian): Indian Women Writers at Home and Abroad.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- January 1, 2006
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On the Outside Looking In(dian): Indian Women Writers at Home and Abroad. By Phillipa Kafka. New York, Bern, and Frankfurt a. M.: Peter Lang. 2003. xii+ 223 pp. $29.95 ISBN 0-8204-5812-0.
Phillipa Kafka's On the Outside Looking In(dian) does not disguise the two primary motivations which have shaped the book. For one thing, it has self-evidently been written to fill a perceived 'migrant women's studies' niche in the American academic market. And, for another, it is informed throughout by the fixed conviction of its US-based feminist author that Indian women have--like rabbits caught in car headlights--faced an almost overwhelming, transfixing battery of ...