Women Writing In India The Twentieth Century

Author : Susie J. Tharu
Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN 13 : 9781558610279
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women Writing in India: 600 B.C. to the early twentieth century written by Susie J. Tharu and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 1991 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 13 : 9781558610293
Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women Writing in India: The twentieth century written by Susie J. Tharu and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 1991 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 13 : 9780044408741
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women Writing in India: The twentieth century written by Susie J. Tharu and published by . This book was released on 1993-01 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Women Writing in India: The twentieth century written by Susie J. Tharu and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Antoinette M. Burton
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195144253
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dwelling in the Archive written by Antoinette M. Burton and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 13 : 0230275095
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminism and Contemporary Indian Women's Writing written by E. Jackson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-01-20 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Nalini Natarajan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 031303267X
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Twentieth-Century Literatures of India written by Nalini Natarajan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1996-09-09 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Sathupati Prasanna Sree
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9788176255783
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indian Women Writing in English written by Sathupati Prasanna Sree and published by Sarup & Sons. This book was released on 2005 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles presented at a seminar hosted by Andhra University on 20th century women authors from India.

Author : Susie J. Tharu
Publisher : Feminist Press
ISBN 13 : 9781558610293
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women Writing in India: The twentieth century written by Susie J. Tharu and published by Feminist Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of works by women Indian writers touches on such areas as feminism, Indic culture and society, and Indic history

Author : Preetha Mani
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810145014
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Idea of Indian Literature written by Preetha Mani and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indian literature is not a corpus of texts or literary concepts from India, argues Preetha Mani, but a provocation that seeks to resolve the relationship between language and literature, written in as well as against English. Examining canonical Hindi and Tamil short stories from the crucial decades surrounding decolonization, Mani contends that Indian literature must be understood as indeterminate, propositional, and reflective of changing dynamics between local, regional, national, and global readerships. In The Idea of Indian Literature, she explores the paradox that a single canon can be written in multiple languages, each with their own evolving relationships to one another and to English. Hindi, representing national aspirations, and Tamil, epitomizing the secessionist propensities of the region, are conventionally viewed as poles of the multilingual continuum within Indian literature. Mani shows, however, that during the twentieth century, these literatures were coconstitutive of one another and of the idea of Indian literature itself. The writers discussed here—from short-story forefathers Premchand and Pudumaippittan to women trailblazers Mannu Bhandari and R. Chudamani—imagined a pan-Indian literature based on literary, rather than linguistic, norms, even as their aims were profoundly shaped by discussions of belonging unique to regional identity. Tracing representations of gender and the uses of genre in the shifting thematic and aesthetic practices of short vernacular prose writing, the book offers a view of the Indian literary landscape as itself a field for comparative literature.