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Contemporary Women's Writing in India.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (162 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781498502115
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Contemporary Women's Writing in IndiaDDC classification:
  • 809.89287
LOC classification:
  • PR9488 -- .C66 2014eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover-Page -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- SECTION I: DWELLING IN THE ARCHIVE: HISTORICAL REPRESENTATIONS -- 1 Herstory: Nayantara Sahgal's Prison and Chocolate Cake -- 2 Producing Nation: Gender and the Idea of India -- 3 Where is "Home"? A Study of Taslima Nasreen's Homecoming and Asif Currimbhoy's The Refugee -- 4 Scar(r)ed Women: Reading Fictional Representations of Women Afflicted by Insurgent Conflict -- 5 Caught in the Crossfire of History: Social Reality of Postcolonial India in Anita Desai's Clear Light of Day -- SECTION II: REFLECTIONS ON FEMINISM: CRITICAL DISCOURSES ON SELECT DOYENNES -- 6 Assertion of "Self": A Feminist Discourse in Manju Kapur's Difficult Daughters and A Married Woman -- 7 Deconstructing the Stereotypes: A Study of Jhumba Lahiri's "Unaccustomed Earth" and Ismat Chughtai's "The Quilt" -- 8 The Alienated Self: Ashima in Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake -- 9 Between Silence and Scream: A Study of Violence Against Women in Manjula Padmanabhan's Lights Out -- 10 Negotiating with Pluralities: Gender and Sexuality in Selected Novels of Shani Mootoo -- 11 Identity Crises in Namita Gokhale's Paro: Dreams of Passion -- SECTION III: TRANSFERENCES: INTERROGATING WOMEN'S BODIES AND PSYCHES -- 12 Psychological Explorations: A Study of Anita Nair's Ladies Coupe -- 13 Mahari Then and Now: Queering Performativity in Odissi -- 14 Feminism and the Gendered Body in Sarah Aboobackar's "Sahana": A Saga of Mute Agony -- 15 Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's The Palace of Illusions: An Écriture Féminine -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Editors and Contributors.
Summary: Contemporary Women's Writing in India offers refreshing and comprehensive literary voices that address a broad range of issues in contemporary women's writing in India.
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Cover-Page -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- SECTION I: DWELLING IN THE ARCHIVE: HISTORICAL REPRESENTATIONS -- 1 Herstory: Nayantara Sahgal's Prison and Chocolate Cake -- 2 Producing Nation: Gender and the Idea of India -- 3 Where is "Home"? A Study of Taslima Nasreen's Homecoming and Asif Currimbhoy's The Refugee -- 4 Scar(r)ed Women: Reading Fictional Representations of Women Afflicted by Insurgent Conflict -- 5 Caught in the Crossfire of History: Social Reality of Postcolonial India in Anita Desai's Clear Light of Day -- SECTION II: REFLECTIONS ON FEMINISM: CRITICAL DISCOURSES ON SELECT DOYENNES -- 6 Assertion of "Self": A Feminist Discourse in Manju Kapur's Difficult Daughters and A Married Woman -- 7 Deconstructing the Stereotypes: A Study of Jhumba Lahiri's "Unaccustomed Earth" and Ismat Chughtai's "The Quilt" -- 8 The Alienated Self: Ashima in Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake -- 9 Between Silence and Scream: A Study of Violence Against Women in Manjula Padmanabhan's Lights Out -- 10 Negotiating with Pluralities: Gender and Sexuality in Selected Novels of Shani Mootoo -- 11 Identity Crises in Namita Gokhale's Paro: Dreams of Passion -- SECTION III: TRANSFERENCES: INTERROGATING WOMEN'S BODIES AND PSYCHES -- 12 Psychological Explorations: A Study of Anita Nair's Ladies Coupe -- 13 Mahari Then and Now: Queering Performativity in Odissi -- 14 Feminism and the Gendered Body in Sarah Aboobackar's "Sahana": A Saga of Mute Agony -- 15 Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's The Palace of Illusions: An Écriture Féminine -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Editors and Contributors.

Contemporary Women's Writing in India offers refreshing and comprehensive literary voices that address a broad range of issues in contemporary women's writing in India.

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