Author : Susie J. Tharu
Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 30,27 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 : Susie J. Tharu
Publisher :
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 14,11 MB
Release : 1993-01
Category : Indic literature
ISBN : 9780044408741
The second volume following on from the first, which spanned the years 600 BC to the early-20th century, this book offers a new reading of cultural history that draws on contemporary scholarship on women and India. The books cover over 140 texts from 13 languages.
Author : Susie J. Tharu
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 20,34 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Indic literature
ISBN :
Author : Susie J. Tharu
Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 43,69 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781558610293
These ground-breaking collections offer 200 texts from eleven languages, never before available in English or as a collection, along with a new reading of cultural history that draws on contemporary scholarship on women and India. This extraordinary body of literature and important documentary resource illuminates the lives of Indian women through 2,600 years of change and extends the historical understanding of literature, feminism, and the making of modern India. The biographical, critical, and bibliographical headnotes in both volumes, supported by an introduction which Anita Desai describes as "intellectually rigorous, challenging, and analytical," place the writers and their selections within the context of Indian culture and history.
Author : Robert B. Silvers
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 25,70 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780940322943
How can we understand India today, fifty years after Independence and only months after its nuclear tests outraged the world? The novelist Arundhati Roy has written, specially for this collection, a fierce denunciation of the Indian nuclear program, which serves as an introduction to nine essays on India, all originally published in The New York Review of Books. In this volume, seven distinguished writers offer penetrating insights into the complexities of the subcontinent. Roderick MacFarquhar reflects on the legacy of Empire and Partition, Ian Buruma considers secularism and Indian democracy, Pankaj Mishra remembers life in Benares, and Christopher de Bellaigue writes on a violent Bombay. But the volatile intersections of history, politics, and culture on which they focus haunt Indian literature too, as shown in essays by Nobel Prize-winner Amartya Sen on Rabindranath Tagore, Hilary Mantel on Rohinton Mistry, and Anita Desai on Indian women's writing.
Author : Leanne Maunu
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 37,90 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780838756706
Women Writing the Nation: National Identity, Female Community, and the British - French Connection, 1770-1820 engages in recent discussions of the development of British nationalism during the eighteenth century and Romantic period. Leanne Maunu argues that women writers looked not to their national identity, but rather to their gender to make claims about the role of women within the British nation. Discussing texts by Frances Burney, Charlotte Smith, Mary Wollstonecraft, and others in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, Maunu demonstrates that women writers of this period imagined themselves as members of a fairly stable community, even if such a community was composed of many different women with many different beliefs. They appropriated the model of collectivity posed by the nation, mimicking a national imagined community.
Author : Margaret J. Daymond
Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 20,30 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9781558614079
Essential...this distinctive series presents 120 southern African texts that are rich, evocative. -- Library Journal
Author : Deborah Manley
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 26,44 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9789774161698
A new paperback edition of a best-selling anthology.
Author : Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 35,47 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1134886527
First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 41,61 MB
Release : 2013-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1558617353
Sultanas Dream, first published in 1905 in a Madras English newspaper, is a witty feminist utopiaa tale of reverse purdah that posits a world in which men are confined indoors and women have taken over the public sphere, ending a war nonviolently and restoring health and beauty to the world."The Secluded Ones" is a selection of short sketches, first published in Bengali newspapers, illuminating the cruel and comic realities of life in purdah.
