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Article: Black Body: Women, Colonialism, and Space. (Book Reviews).(Review)
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- The Mississippi Quarterly
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- December 22, 2000
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Black Body: Women, Colonialism, and Space, by Radhika Mohanram. Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, 1999. xx, 250 pp. $44.95 cloth. $17.95 paper.
"I HAD TO BE DISLOCATED FROM THE U.S. to become identified as an American, just as I had to leave India to become Indian" (p. xii). So meditates Radhika Mohanram on the contradictory and slippery nature of identity and (dis)location in her new book Black Body: Women, Colonialism, and Space. Having identified and located herself as a traveling scholar from India, educated in the U.S. and now teaching in New Zealand, she proceeds to explore the ways theories of identity travel around the globe. In an ambitious study, ...