Author : E. Jackson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 39,37 MB
Release : 2010-01-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230275095
This book is a comparative and developmental study of the expression of feminist concerns in the novels of Kamala Markandaya, Nayantara Sahgal, Anita Desai, and Shashi Deshpande, among the best known and most prolific Indian novelists writing in English, who have been self-consciously engaged with women's issues during the postcolonial era.
Author : Susie J. Tharu
Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 45,93 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781558610279
Includes songs by Buddhist nuns, testimonies of medieval rebel poets and court historians, and the voices of more than 60 other writers of the 18th and 19th centuries. Among the diverse selections are a rare early essay by an untouchable woman; an account by the first feminist historian; and a selection from the first novel written in English by an Indian woman.
Author : Urvashi Kuhad
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 44,59 MB
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1000415864
Science fiction, as a literature of fantasy, goes beyond the mundane to ask the question: what if the world were different from the way it is? It often challenges the real, builds on imagination, places no limits on human capacities, and encourages readers to think outside their social and cultural conditioning. This book presents a systematic study of Indian women’s science fiction. It offers a critical analysis of the works of four female Indian writers of science fiction: Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, Manjula Padmanabhan, Priya Sarukkai Chabria and Vandana Singh. The author considers not only the evolution of science fiction writing in India, but also discusses the use of innovations and unique themes including science fiction in different Indian languages; the literary, political, and educational activism of the women writers; and eco-feminism and the idea of cloning in writing, to argue that this genre could be viewed as a vibrant representation of freedom of expression and radical literature. This ground-breaking volume will be useful for scholars and researchers of English literature. It will also prove a very useful source for further studies into Indian literature, science and technology studies, women’s and gender studies, comparative literature and cultural studies.
Author : Varun Gulati
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 21,93 MB
Release : 2014-12-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1498502113
The word doyenne 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.
Author : Surya Nath Pandey
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 39,61 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Indic literature (English)
ISBN :
Author : Nazneen Khan (Professor of English)
Publisher :
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 21,32 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Feminism in literature
ISBN : 9788172739461
Author : Kali for Women (Organization)
Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 34,99 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781558610125
   The rich popular tradition of India's women writers is finally available in this collection of short stories translated from seven of the country's languages. The writers and their heroines reflect the complex mosaic of Indian life-they are old and young, rural and urban, rich and poor. Here we meet Muniyakka, called "walkie-talkie" because she mutters to herself; Shakun, the dollmaker, an exploited artist who needs to feel that others depend on her; and Jashoda, professional mother to children of the rich, from Mahasveta Devi's acknowledged masterpiece "The Wet Nurse." These stories "are dense with thsoe customs, manners, and objects that usually remain locked within regional languages," wrote Anita Desai in the New York Review ofBooks . Meena Alexander's thoughtful introduction places the stories and the writers in the context of modern India.
Author : Ruvani Ranasinha
Publisher : Springer
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 26,78 MB
Release : 2016-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137403055
This book is the first comparative analysis of a new generation of diasporic Anglophone South Asian women novelists including Kiran Desai, Tahmima Anam, Monica Ali, Kamila Shamsie and Jhumpa Lahiri from a feminist perspective. It charts the significant changes these writers have produced in postcolonial and contemporary women’s fiction since the late 1990s. Paying careful attention to the authors’ distinct subcontinental backgrounds of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka – as well as India - this study destabilises the central place given to fiction focused on India. It broadens the customary focus on diasporic writers’ metropolitan contexts, illuminates how these transnational, female-authored literary texts challenge national assumptions and considers the ways in which this new configuration of transnational, feminist writers produces a postcolonial feminist discourse, which differs from Anglo-American feminism.
Author : Rana Seema
Publisher : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,8 MB
Release : 2015-08-21
Category :
ISBN : 9783659773969
There has been a conspicuous shift in Indian women's writing in English. Rightly hailed as the aesthetic voice of contemporary Indian woman, it displays narrative dexterity, linguistic robustness, stylistic boldness, thematic innovation and polemical thrust. It is an articulation of female consciousness that instead of wallowing in maudlin sentimentality or domestic enclosures actively intervenes in the public sphere. Instead of merely reacting to the derivative notions of gendered femaleness, it offers a sturdy renegotiation of issues of public importance, and foregrounds this renegotiation as a necessary stage in the process of self-realization and self-representation. Not only the concerns but even the contribution of women writers in the literary world has become comprehensive and manifold. Today one sees their creativity straddling across genres as diverse as travel writing and detective fiction. Contemporary women writers have emerged and established themselves as confident professionals empowered enough to deal with any issue of public significance. Many of these writers have been active in socio-political domains, a fact that bears significantly on their creativity.
Author : Dipak Giri
Publisher : Vishwabharati Research Centre, Latur, India
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 30,53 MB
Release : 2018-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9387966836
About the book: The book Indian Women Novelists in English: Art and Vision is a volume of twenty five research articles on contemporary Indian women novelists and their works ranging from Anita Desai, Shashi Deshpande, Manju Kapur, Shobhaa De, Meena Alexander, Githa Hariharan, Arundhati Roy to the younger generation of novelists Anita Nair, Kiran Desai and Jhumpa Lahiri along with two less explored novelists Rita Garg and Nayeema Mahjoor. Three regional writers- Sarah Joseph, Qurratulain Hyder and Mahasweta Devi are also part of this volume, though their write-ups are in regional languages, yet their translated works in English have earned wide popularity. The volume with its diversity of topics will instill knowledge into the critical minds and open many unopened doors from where many unexplored regions of knowledge will be revisited. About the Editor: Dipak Giri- M.A. (Double), B.Ed. - is a Ph. D. Research Scholar in Raiganj University, Raiganj, Uttar Dinajpur (W.B.). He is working as an Assistant Teacher in Katamari High School (H.S.), Cooch Behar, West Bengal. He is an Academic Counsellor in Netaji Subhas Open University, Cooch Behar College Study Centre, Cooch Behar, West Bengal. He was formerly Part-Time Lecturer in Cooch Behar College, Vivekananda College and Thakur Panchanan Mahila Mahavidyalaya, West Bengal and worked as a Guest Lecturer in Dewanhat College, West Bengal. He has the credit of qualifying U.G.C.-N.E.T. two times. He has attended seminars on national and state levels sponsored by U.G.C. Along with this book on Indian women novelists in English, he has also edited four books: Indian English Drama: Themes and Techniques, Indian English Novel: Styles and Motives, Postcolonial English Literature: Theory and Practice and New Woman in Indian Literature: From Covert to Overt. He is a well-known academician and has published many scholarly research articles in books and journals of both national and international repute. His area of studies includes Post-Colonial Literature, Indian Writing in English, Dalit Literature, Feminism and Gender Studies.
