Writing Gender, Writing Nation: Women's Fiction in Post-Independence India
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Writing Gender, Writing Nation: Women's Fiction in Post-Independence India

Writing Gender, Writing Nation: Women's Fiction in Post-Independence India

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Bharti Arora (Author)  

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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, 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, and 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 the 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.
Bharti Arora is a faculty member of the Department of English, Tagore Government Arts and Science College, Pondicherry, India.
  • Contributor: Bharti Arora
  • Imprint: Routledge India
  • ISBN13: 9780367280529
  • Number of Pages: 222
  • Packaged Dimensions: 156x234mm
  • Packaged Weight: 426
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Release Date: 2019-07-15
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Bharti Arora is a faculty member of the Department of English, Tagore Government Arts and Science College, Pondicherry, India.

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