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Contemporary women's writing in India /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gulati, Varun (Editor ), Anoop, Mythili (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2014]
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: SECTION I DWELLING IN THE ARCHIVE: HISTORICAL REPRESENTATIONS
  • 1. Herstory: Nayantara Sahgal's Prison and Chocolate Cake / Rachel Bari
  • 2. Producing Nation: Gender and the Idea of India / Etienne Rassendren
  • 3. Where is "Home"? A Study of Taslima Nasreen's Homecoming and Asif Currimbhoy's The Refugee / Anju Jagpal
  • 4. Scar(r)ed Women: Reading Fictional Representations of Women Afflicted by Insurgent Conflict / Mukuta Borah
  • 5. Caught in the Crossfire of History: Social Reality of Postcolonial India in Anita Desai's Clear Light of Day / Narayan Jena
  • 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 / Sutapa Biswas
  • 7. Deconstructing the Stereotypes: A Study of Jhumba Lahiri's "Unaccustomed Earth" and Ismat Chughtai's "The Quilt" / Gauri Mandapaka
  • 8. Alienated Self: Ashima in Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake / Poonam Pahuja
  • 9. Between Silence and Scream: A Study of Violence Against Women in Manjula Padmanabhan's Lights Out / Anand Mahanand
  • 10. Negotiating with Pluralities: Gender and Sexuality in Selected Novels of Shani Mootoo / Ashutosh Singh
  • 11. Identity Crises in Namita Gokhale's Paro: Dreams of Passion / Meenakshi Saini
  • SECTION III TRANSFERENCES: INTERROGATING WOMEN'S BODIES AND PSYCHES
  • 12. Psychological Explorations: A Study of Anita Nair's Ladies Coupe / Prerna Jatav
  • 13. Mahari Then and Now: Queering Performativity in Odissi / Paul Boyce
  • 14. Feminism and the Gendered Body in Sarah Aboobackar's "Sahana": A Saga of Mute Agony / Shashikantha Koudur
  • 15. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's The Palace of Illusions: An Ecriture Feminine / Sarannya V. Pillai.