The Indian family in transition : reading literary and cultural texts / editors, Sanjukta Dasgupta, Malashri Lal.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This book critiques literary and cultural representations of the Indian family to explore the manner in which the family and its structure are in transition. The various papers explore (and expose) how the Indian family, whether in India or abroad, needs to be redefined in the current context--in this age of rapid industrialization, globalization (both cultural and economic) and the emergence of new technologies. The family is viewed from a variety of perspectives, as represented in film, theatre and literature--both in English and in the vernacular. Including reflective pieces by several well-k.

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As the husband, so the wife : old patriarchy, new patriarchy and misogyny in one late nineenth-century domestic science manual / Judith E. Walsh -- Women and agency : vignettes from Indian families / Mukul Mukherjee -- Modern families and independent living : reflections on contemporary aging / Sarah Lamb -- Women and the Naga family today : communitarianism in practice / Bonita Aleaz -- Society, family and the self in Indian fiction / Jayita Sengupta -- Imagined family : pangs of transition / Esha Dey -- The politics of home and food in Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies / Irma Maini -- Representation of the family in Marathi autobiography written by Dalit women / Pushpa Bhave -- Real and imagined Gujarati families : shifting positionalities of gender in contemporary Gujarati women's writings / Sutapa Chaudhuri -- Hypocrisy and hollowness in the Indian joint family system : a study of Mahesh Dattani's plays / Arpa Ghosh -- Reflections of family and women in Telugu literature : a look at women's fiction / N. Venugopal Rao -- Globalization and diasporic family dynamics : reconciling the old and the new / Mary Mathew -- Food, family, widowhood in Ashapurna Devi's short fiction / Naina Dey -- The self and the family in Telugu women's poetry / M. Sridhar and Alladi Uma -- The family in flux : the decimated family in Rituparno Ghosh's films / Shoma A. Chatterji -- The "reel" Indian family : reflections from celluloid / Meghna Gulzar -- Hunting for fish : a poem / Meena Alexander -- The family : as I saw it, as I see it / Vidya Bal -- Thoughts on home / Nonda Chatterjee -- Looking back / Shashi Deshpande -- Small-scale reflections on an ancestral home / Makarand Paranjape -- Indian families in the world : forty years in Manitoba / Uma Parameswaran -- A dialog with Amartya Sen / Sanjukta Dasgupta and Malashri Lal.

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