Postcolonial Feminist Authors
Postcolonial feminist authors include:
- Arundhati Roy, with her novel The God of Small Things (1997)
- Gayatri Spivak, with her important "Can the Subaltern Speak?" (1988)
- Giannina Braschi, with her mixed-genre critique of Puerto Rico's colonial status "United States of Banana" (2011)
- Trinh T. Minh-ha, with her essay "Infinite Layers/Third World?" (1989), and her book Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism (1989)
- Chandra Talpade Mohanty, with her influential essay "Under Western Eyes" (1988)
- Uma Narayan, with her book Dislocating Cultures (1997) and her essay "Contesting Cultures" (1997)
- Kwok Pui-lan, with her book Postcolonial Imagination and Feminist Theology (2005)
- Sara Suleri, Boys Will Be Boys: A Daughter's Elegy (2003)
- Lata Mani, Contentious Traditions: The Debate on Sati in Colonial India (1998)
- Kumkum Sangari, Recasting Women: Essays in Colonial History (1989)
- Anne McClintock, Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest (1995)
- Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La frontera: The New Mestiza (1987) and the anthologies This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (1981) and Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Feminists of Color (1990)
- Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (1983), Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984)
- June Jordan
- Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
- Aurora Levins Morales, Getting Home Alive (with Rosario Morales, 1986), Medicine Stories: History, Culture, and the Politics of Integrity (1998), and Remedios: Stories of Earth and Iron from the History of Puertorriqueñas (1998).
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