GENTLE ANTHROPOLOGY

Authors

  • Felicity Hand

Keywords:

Ethnography, Asian women, gender, ethnicity, class, Rukhsana Ahmad

Abstract

This article explores the idea of approaching texts from an ethnographic perspective that is to enter another culture, participate in it and contrast it with one's own. Some recent work by the Pakistani writer Rukhsana Ahmad are used to illustrate this post-colonial and cultural studies approach to reading. The diversity of Ahmad's women characters belies the western concept of the Asian woman, victim of her culture as ethnicity is only one aspect of identity. Class and gender constraints must also be taken into account.

Author Biography

Felicity Hand

Dept. Filologia Anglesa Edifici B Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

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