The women alone : details of Bangladesh life and Adda : a narative ethnography, with an accompanying exegesis : thinking about writing about
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2012
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Hummel, Kathryn Susannah
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The narrative ethnography The Women Alone: Details of Bangladesh Life and Adda and its exegesis Thinking About Writing About ‘The Women Alone’ present the reader with a multi-genre interpretation of the narratives of four figures (women and woman-identifying) in contemporary Bangladesh. Originally formulated in reaction to the limited discourse on women produced by local and international development industries, The Women Alone interprets varied aspects of the lives of Shadhana, Hasna, Katha and Israt and compares them, along with my own experiences, to ideas of gender, economics, education, religion and postcoloniality that commonly define women of—and in—Bangladesh. Below these narratives is the admission of my subjectivity and of my imperfect role as an ethnographic researcher, narrative interpreter, feminist, writer, woman and foreign visitor to Dhaka. A broad text, The Women Alone combines prose and poetry to express the personal revelations and mundane incidents shared in adda as well as the ‘illegitimate’ side of anthropology—how the personality, experiences and memory of the ethnographer affects her fieldwork and relationships with research participants.
The narrative ethnographic approach of The Women Alone is echoed in Thinking About Writing About, with each section of the exegesis beginning with a narrative reflection that introduces the subsequent theoretical discussion and highlights the overarching theme of gender.
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School of Communication, International Studies and Languages
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Thesis (PhD)--University of South Australia, 2012.
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Copyright 2012 Kathryn Susannah Hummel. This work is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs Australia 3.0 licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au/)
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2 volumes (xiii, 266 leaves)
colour illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 248-265)
colour illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 248-265)
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