'Sister Outsiders' The Representation of Identity and Difference in Selected Writings by South African Indian Women

"In many ways 'Sister Outsiders': The Representation if Identity and Difference in Selected Writings by South African Indian Women is a revelatory text. It places the whole field of Indian women's writings in South Africa in perspective within the context of the country's and women's writing, filling a significant gap. The gap has asrisen on two counts: first, Indian texts were long neglected and even suppressed by the apartheid government as many of those texts were considered subversive and second, South African women are still struggling for full recognition of their intellectual, academic and commercial efforts. Both these issues are sensitively and yet fully addressed in this work. At the same time it highlights the high quality of the prose of South African Indian women and adds to the historiography of South Africa."--BOOK JACKET.