Contemporary Women's Writing in India (eBook)

Maratt Mythili Anoop, Varun Gulati (Herausgeber)

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2014
180 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-0211-5 (ISBN)

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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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The word doyennes signifies the various expressions of female, feminine, and feminist aspects of contemporary literature in India, through multiple theoretical frameworks. Contemporary Women's Writing in India is an edited collection dealing with a range of these issues set in the society of Indian culture. Indian women's literature is still a fertile ground for critical enquiry. There are three sections in the collection: Section I deals with specific instances in history, historical constructions, and representations of gender. Section II offers a varied spectrum of feminist critical discourse on contemporary Indian women's writing, intersecting with the frameworks of post-colonial theory, deconstruction, perspectives on race and ethnicity, and eco-feminism. Section III touches upon the notion of the woman's body and psyche through the varied perspectives of psychoanalysis, feminism, and post-feminism. By thoroughly exploring a range of issues, Contemporary Women's Writing promises to take the reader by the hand, and journey through the unfamiliar but refreshing landscape of women's literature in India.

Autor

Mythili Anoop teaches at Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management University.Varun Gulati has taught English literature and language for ten years in colleges and universities across India.

Inhalt

Contents:AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Varun Gulati and Mythili Anoop Section I Ch 01 Herstory: Nayantara Sahgal’s Prison and Chocolate Rachel Bari Ch 02 Producing Nation: Gender and the Idea of IndiaEtienne RassendrenCh 03 Where is ‘home’? A Study of Taslima Nasreen’s Homecoming and Asif Currombhoy’s The Refugee Anju Jagpal Ch 04 Scar(r)ed Women: Reading Fictional Representations of Women Afflicted by Insurgent Conflict Mukuta BorahCh 05 Caught in the Crossfire of History: Social Reality of Post-colonial India in Anita Desai’s Clear Light of Day Pramod Kumar Das and Narayan Jena Section IICh 06 Assertion of ‘Self’: A Feminist Discourse in Manju Kapur’s Difficult Daughters and A Married Woman Sutapa BiswasCh 07 Deconstructing the Stereotypes: A study of Jhuma Lahiri’s “Unaccustomed Earth” and Ismat Chugtai’s “The Quilt” Gauri Mandapaka Ch08 The Alienated Self: Ashima in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake Shyamkiran Kaur, Rajinder K. Sen, and Poonam Pahuja Ch 09 Between Silence and Scream: A Study of Violence against Women in Manjula Padmanabhan’s Lights OutBhavesh Kumar and Anand Mahanand Ch 10 Negotiating with Pluralities: Race, Gender, and Ethnicity in the Writings of Shani Mootoo Neetu Devi and Ashutosh Singh Ch 11 Identity Crises in Namita Gokhle’s Paro: Dreams of PassionShalini Vohra, Mudita Agnihotri, and Meenakshi SainSection IIICh 12 Psychoanalytical Study of the Selective Characters of Ladies Coupe Anjali Verma, Prerna Jatav Ch 13 Mahari Then and Now: Queering Performativity in OdissiKaustavi SarkarCh 14 Sarah Aboobackar’s Sahana: A Saga of Mute BodyAmbika G. Mallya and Shashikantha KoudurCh 15 Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Palace of Illusions: An Écriture FéminineSarannya V PillaiIndexAbout the Contributors

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.12.2014
• Co-Autor: Mudita Agnihotri, Narayan Jena, Shyamkiran Kaur, Shashikantha Koudur, Bhavesh Kumar, Anand Mahanand, Ambika G. Mallya, Gauri Mandapaka, Poonam Pahuja, Sarannya Pillai, Etienne Rassendren, Rachel Bari, Meenakshi Saini, Kaustavi Sarkar, Rajinder Kumar Sen, Ashutosh Singh, Anjali Verma, Shalini Vohra, Sutapa Biswas, Mukuta Borah, Paul Boyce, Pramod Kumar Das, Neetu Devi, Anju Jagpal, Prerna Jatav
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Contemporary Indian Literature • Contemporary Literary Doyennes • Criticial elucidations • Identity • INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE • Indian Women Writers • Literary Doyennes • Quest for Freedom
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-0211-3 / 1498502113
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-0211-5 / 9781498502115