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" What's the use of clothes? You can strip me, but how can you clothe me again? Are you a man? "
Embracing the Other: Addressing Xenophobia in the New Literatures in English - Page xiii
edited by - 2008 - 341 pages
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Is the Goddess a Feminist?: The Politics of South Asian Goddesses

Alf Hiltebeitel, Kathleen M. Erndl - Religion - 2000 - 292 pages
...her lips bleed. She 'shakes with an indomitable laughter that Senanayak simply cannot understand... What's the use of clothes? You can strip me, but how can you clothe me again? Are you a man?' She spits blood 6. Spivak italicizes the Bengali usages of English words in her translation. on his shirt,...
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Body Matters: Feminism, Textuality, Corporeality

Avril Horner, Angela Keane - Art - 2000 - 282 pages
...wipe away its signs. Worse, her nakedness is offered as an affront to their masculinity: '"What is the use of clothes? You can strip me, but how can you clothe me again? Are you a man? ... There isn'ta man here that I should be ashamed"' (196). Very simply: Dopdi does not let her nakedness...
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Signposts: Gender Issues in Post-independence India

Rajeswari Sunder Rajan - Sex discrimination against women - 2001 - 396 pages
...to wipe away its signs. Worse, her nakedness is offered as an affront to their masculinity: "What is the use of clothes? You can strip me, but how can you clothe me again? Are you a man?... There isn'ta man here that I should be ashamed." (196) Very simply: Dopdi does not let her nakedness...
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A Time for Tea: Women, Labor, and Post/Colonial Politics on an Indian Plantation

Piya Chatterjee - Business & Economics - 2001 - 444 pages
...blood on her palm and says in a voice that is terrifying, sky splitting and sharp as her ululation, What's the use of clothes? You can strip me, but how can you clothe me again?" WOMAN 3: "Are you a man? She looks around and chooses the front of the Senanayak's white bush shirt...
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The World Next Door: South Asian American Literature and the Idea of America

Rajini Srikanth - History - 2004 - 312 pages
...flinging it into the eyes of the perpetrator so that she will not give him the satisfaction of her shame. "You can strip me, but how can you clothe me again? Are you a man?" she says, challenging the official. "There isn'ta man here that I should be ashamed. I will not let you...
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Female Infanticide in India: A Feminist Cultural History

Rashmi Dube Bhatnagar, Reena Dube - Social Science - 2005 - 338 pages
...blood on her palm and says in a voice that is as terrifying, sky spitting, and sharp as her ululation, What's the use of clothes? You can strip me, but how...you do? Come on, counter me — come on, counter me — ? Draupadi pushes Senanayak with her two mangled breasts, and for the first time Senanayak is afraid...
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Texts And Their Worlds - I Literature Of India An Introduction

Anna Kurian - 2006 - 256 pages
...blood on her palm and says in a voice that is as terrifying, sky splitting, and sharp as her ululation, What's the use of clothes? You can strip me, but how...put my cloth on me. What more can you do? Come on, kounter me — come on, haunter me — ? Draupadi pushes Senanayak with her two mangled breasts, and...
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Texts and Their Worlds i

Kurian - 256 pages
...blood on her palm and says in a voice that is as terrifying, sky splitting, and sharp as her ululation, What's the use of clothes? You can strip me, but how...more can you do? Come on, Counter me — come on, kounter me—? Draupadi pushes Senanayak with her two mangled breasts, and for the first time Senanayak...
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