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  1. Writing gender, writing nation
    women's fiction in post-independence India
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon

    "This book explores the gendered contexts of the Indian nation through a rigorous analysis of selected women's fiction ranging from diverse linguistic, regional, geographical, caste, class and regional contexts. Indian women's writing across... more

     

    "This book explores the gendered contexts of the Indian nation through a rigorous analysis of selected women's fiction ranging from diverse linguistic, regional, geographical, caste, class and regional contexts. Indian women's writing across languages, texts, and contexts constitutes a unique narrative of the post-independence nation. This volume highlights the ways in which women writers negotiate the patriarchal biases embedded in the epistemological and institutional structures of the post-independence nation state. It discusses works of famous Indian authors like Amrita Pritam, Jyotirmoyee Devi, Mannu Bhandari, Mahasweta Devi, Mridula Garg, Nayantara Sahgal, Indira Goswami, Alka Saraogi to name a few, and facilitates a pan-Indian understanding of the concerns taken up by these women writers. In doing so, it shows how ideas travel across regions and contribute towards building a thematic critique of the oppressive structures that breed the unequal relations between margins and the centre. The volume will be of interest to scholars and researchers of gender studies, women's studies, South Asian literature, political sociology and political studies"--

     

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  2. Writing gender, writing nation
    women's fiction in post-independence India
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Routledge,, Abingdon, Oxon

    Women as 'citizens' : gendered violence in partition narratives by women -- Feminist negotiation of autarchy : going beyond victimhood -- Negotiating structural inequalities : marriage, domesticity, divorce and widowhood in post-independence India --... more

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    Women as 'citizens' : gendered violence in partition narratives by women -- Feminist negotiation of autarchy : going beyond victimhood -- Negotiating structural inequalities : marriage, domesticity, divorce and widowhood in post-independence India -- Economic liberalisation, cultural ghettoisation and their impact on the gendered contexts -- Writings from the margins : dalit and Muslim women's narratives.

     

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  3. Writing gender, writing nation
    women's fiction in post-independence India
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon ; Taylor & Francis Group, London

    "This book explores the gendered contexts of the Indian nation through a rigorous analysis of selected women's fiction ranging from diverse linguistic, regional, geographical, caste, class and regional contexts. Indian women's writing across... more

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    "This book explores the gendered contexts of the Indian nation through a rigorous analysis of selected women's fiction ranging from diverse linguistic, regional, geographical, caste, class and regional contexts. Indian women's writing across languages, texts, and contexts constitutes a unique narrative of the post-independence nation. This volume highlights the ways in which women writers negotiate the patriarchal biases embedded in the epistemological and institutional structures of the post-independence nation state. It discusses works of famous Indian authors like Amrita Pritam, Jyotirmoyee Devi, Mannu Bhandari, Mahasweta Devi, Mridula Garg, Nayantara Sahgal, Indira Goswami, Alka Saraogi to name a few, and facilitates a pan-Indian understanding of the concerns taken up by these women writers. In doing so, it shows how ideas travel across regions and contribute towards building a thematic critique of the oppressive structures that breed the unequal relations between margins and the centre. The volume will be of interest to scholars and researchers of gender studies, women's studies, South Asian literature, political sociology and political studies"--...

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780429299421; 0429299427; 9781000094275; 1000094278; 9781000084856; 100008485X; 9781000089561; 1000089568
    Subjects: Indic fiction; Indic fiction (English); Indic fiction; Indic fiction; Indic fiction (English); Indic fiction (English); Women and literature; Women and literature; Women in literature; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
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    Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--Jamia Millia Islamia (India), 2018, titled Writing gender, writing nation : a critical study of select women's fiction in post-independence India

  4. Writing gender, writing nation
    women's fiction in post-independence India
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Routledge,, Abingdon, Oxon

    Women as 'citizens' : gendered violence in partition narratives by women -- Feminist negotiation of autarchy : going beyond victimhood -- Negotiating structural inequalities : marriage, domesticity, divorce and widowhood in post-independence India --... more

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    Women as 'citizens' : gendered violence in partition narratives by women -- Feminist negotiation of autarchy : going beyond victimhood -- Negotiating structural inequalities : marriage, domesticity, divorce and widowhood in post-independence India -- Economic liberalisation, cultural ghettoisation and their impact on the gendered contexts -- Writings from the margins : dalit and Muslim women's narratives.

     

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