TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gulati,Varun
AU  - Anoop,Mythili
TI  - Contemporary women's writing in India
SN  - 9781498502115
AV  - PR9488 
U1  - 820.9/92870954 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Lanham, Maryland
PB  - Lexington Books
KW  - Indic literature (English)
KW  - Women authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Women and literature
KW  - India
KW  - Feminism and literature
KW  - Femmes et littérature
KW  - Inde
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - European
KW  - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-179) and index; Machine generated contents note; SECTION I; DWELLING IN THE ARCHIVE: HISTORICAL REPRESENTATIONS --; 1; Herstory: Nayantara Sahgal's Prison and Chocolate Cake; Rachel Bari --; 2; Producing Nation: Gender and the Idea of India; Etienne Rassendren --; 3; Where is "Home"? A Study of Taslima Nasreen's Homecoming and Asif Currimbhoy's The Refugee; Anju Jagpal --; 4; Scar(r)ed Women: Reading Fictional Representations of Women Afflicted by Insurgent Conflict; Mukuta Borah --; 5; Caught in the Crossfire of History: Social Reality of Postcolonial India in Anita Desai's Clear Light of Day; Narayan Jena --; SECTION II; REFLECTIONS ON FEMINISM: CRITICAL DISCOURSES ON SELECT DOYENNES --; 6; Assertion of "Self": A Feminist Discourse in Manju Kapur's Difficult Daughters and A Married Woman; Sutapa Biswas --; 7; Deconstructing the Stereotypes: A Study of Jhumba Lahiri's "Unaccustomed Earth" and Ismat Chughtai's "The Quilt"; Gauri Mandapaka --; 8; Alienated Self: Ashima in Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake; Poonam Pahuja --; 9; Between Silence and Scream: A Study of Violence Against Women in Manjula Padmanabhan's Lights Out; Anand Mahanand --; 10; Negotiating with Pluralities: Gender and Sexuality in Selected Novels of Shani Mootoo; Ashutosh Singh --; 11; Identity Crises in Namita Gokhale's Paro: Dreams of Passion; Meenakshi Saini --; SECTION III; TRANSFERENCES: INTERROGATING WOMEN'S BODIES AND PSYCHES --; 12; Psychological Explorations: A Study of Anita Nair's Ladies Coupe; Prerna Jatav --; 13; Mahari Then and Now: Queering Performativity in Odissi; Paul Boyce --; 14; Feminism and the Gendered Body in Sarah Aboobackar's "Sahana": A Saga of Mute Agony; Shashikantha Koudur --; 15; Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's The Palace of Illusions: An Ecriture Feminine; Sarannya V. Pillai
N2  - Contemporary Women's Writing in India offers refreshing and comprehensive literary voices that address a broad range of issues in contemporary women's writing in India
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