“…Among the many works which appeared independently of each other in this field, the following are worthy of special attention: Contemporary African Literature and the Politics of Gender, by Florence Stratton (1994): Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Context, by Anne McClintock (1995); Body Space: Destabilizing Geographies of Gender and Sexuality (1996), edited by Nancy Duncan; Dangerous Liaisons: Gender, Nation and Postcolonial Perspectives, by Anne McClintock, Aamir Mufti, and Ella Shohat (1997); Women, Citizenship and Difference, edited by Nira Yuval- Davis and Pnina Werbner (1998); Gendered Ironies of Nationalism. Sexing the Nation, edited by Mayer Tamar (1999); En-gendering India: Woman and Nation in Postcolonial Narratives, by Sangeeta Ray (2000); Women and the Nation's Narrative: Gender and Nationalism in Sri Lanka, by Neloufer de Mel (2001); Stories of Women: Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation, by Elleke Boehmer (2005); and The Nation Writ Small: African Fictions and Feminisms 1958Feminisms -1988, by Susan Z. Andrade (2011).…”