Women Writing in India: 600 B.C. to the early twentieth century

Women Writing in India: 600 B.C. to the early twentieth century PDF Author: Susie J. Tharu
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN: 9781558610279
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 580

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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.

Women Writing in India: 600 B.C. to the early twentieth century

Women Writing in India: 600 B.C. to the early twentieth century PDF Author: Susie J. Tharu
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN: 9781558610279
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 580

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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.

Women Writing in India: The twentieth century

Women Writing in India: The twentieth century PDF Author: Susie J. Tharu
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780044408741
Category : Indic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 641

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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.

Women Writing in India: The twentieth century

Women Writing in India: The twentieth century PDF Author: Susie J. Tharu
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN: 9781558610293
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 678

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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.

India

India PDF Author: Robert B. Silvers
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 9780940322943
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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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.

Women Writing Africa

Women Writing Africa PDF Author: Margaret J. Daymond
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN: 9781558614079
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 600

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Essential...this distinctive series presents 120 southern African texts that are rich, evocative. -- Library Journal

Women Writing the Nation

Women Writing the Nation PDF Author: Leanne Maunu
Publisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780838756706
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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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.

Real and Imagined Women

Real and Imagined Women PDF Author: Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134886527
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 157

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First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The High-caste Hindu Woman

The High-caste Hindu Woman PDF Author: Ramabai (Pandita)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hindu women
Languages : en
Pages : 172

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Feminism in India

Feminism in India PDF Author: Maiyatree Chaudhuri
Publisher: Zed Books
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 418

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This collection is an invaluable overview of the rich history of Indian feminism. It brings together the writing of prominent Indian academics and activists as they debate feminism in the context of Indian culture, society and politics, and explore its theoretical foundations in India. The inevitable association with western feminism, the status of women in colonial and independent India, and the challenges to Indian feminism posed by globalization and the Hindu Right are discussed at length. It deepens our understanding of why, despite the existence of legal and constitutional rights, women are subject to oppressive practices like dowry.

Rethinking English

Rethinking English PDF Author: Svati Joshi
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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