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.
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.
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.
Author: Antoinette M. Burton
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195144253
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Through an analysis of the writings of three 20th century Indian women, this book explores how the memoirs, fictions, and histories written by women can be read as counter-narratives of colonial modernity.
Author: E. Jackson
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230275095
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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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: Eunice de Souza
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 464
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Offers A Wide Range Of Writing In English Fiction, Including Stories For Children, Autobiographies, Articles, Letters-Private And Public. An Informative Introduction To The Period Adds To The Usefulness Of The Volume. Useful For Those Interested In Women`S Literature In Modern India.
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.
Author: Nalini Natarajan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 031303267X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 451
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India has a rich literary assemblage produced by its many different regional traditions, religious faiths, ethnic subcultures and linguistic groups. The published literature of the 20th century is a particularly interesting subject and is the focus of this book, as it represents the provocative conjuncture of the transitions of Indian modernity. This reference book surveys the major regional literatures of contemporary India in the context of the country's diversity and heterogeneity. Chapters are devoted to particular regions, and the arrangement of the work invites comparisons of literary traditions. Chapters provide extensive bibliographies of primary works, thus documenting the creative achievement of numerous contemporary Indian authors. Some chapters cite secondary works as well, and the volume concludes with a list of general works providing further information. An introductory essay overviews theoretical concerns, ideological and aesthetic considerations, developments in various genres, and the history of publishing in regional literatures. The introduction provides a context for approaching the chapters that follow, each of which is devoted to the literature of a particular region. Each chapter begins with a concise introductory section. The body of each chapter is structured according to social and historical events, literary forms, or broad descriptive or analytic trends, depending on the particular subject matter. Each chapter then closes with an extensive bibliography of primary works, thus documenting the rich literary tradition of the region. Some chapters also cite secondary sources as an aid to the reader. The final chapters of the book address special topics, such as sub-cultural literatures, or the interplay between literature and film. A list of additional sources of general information concludes the volume.
Author: Monika Gupta
Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Dist
ISBN: 9788171569595
Category : Feminism and literature
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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The Present Anthology, Consisting Of Some Twenty Articles Of Moderate Length By Eminent Scholars At The National Level, Is An Attempt In Analysing The Point Of View Of Women As Evinced In The Writings Of The Women Writers Belonging To The Different Genres And The Countries Like India, America, South-Africa, Canada, The Other Countries Of The Commonwealth And Africa, And Also The Writing Branded As Post Modernist Literature And The Literature Of The New Modernity .Where The Emphasis Is Laid Particularly Upon The Issues Of Identity, Alienation, Suppression And Protest Pertaining To The Lot Of Women In The Present Day World, The Volume Stresses An Usurping Issue Of Her Dominance Over Men, Not Through Her Sexuality But The Far Effective Qualities Of Her Motherhood.This Volume Is Brought Out With The Trust That It Would Throw Fresh Light On The Approach Of The Researchers And Make The Literary Critical Art A Pastime In Excavating As Well As Analysing Thoughts Of The Modern Writers On Both Woman And Her Feminity.
Author: Luise von Flotow
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351658050
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 748
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The Routledge Handbook of Translation, Feminism and Gender provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of feminism and gender awareness in translation and translation studies today. Bringing together work from more than 20 different countries – from Russia to Chile, Yemen, Turkey, China, India, Egypt and the Maghreb as well as the UK, Canada, the USA and Europe – this Handbook represents a transnational approach to this topic, which is in development in many parts of the world. With 41 chapters, this book presents, discusses, and critically examines many different aspects of gender in translation and its effects, both local and transnational. Providing overviews of key questions and case studies of work currently in progress, this Handbook is the essential reference and resource for students and researchers of translation, feminism, and gender.
