Feminism and Contemporary Indian Women's Writing

Feminism and Contemporary Indian Women's Writing
Author: E. Jackson
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2010-01-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230275095

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.

Women Writing in India: 600 B.C. to the early twentieth century

Women Writing in India: 600 B.C. to the early twentieth century
Author: Susie J. Tharu
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
Total Pages: 580
Release: 1991
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781558610279

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.

Feminism and Recent Indian Literature

Feminism and Recent Indian Literature
Author: Rajinder Kumar Dhawan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2008
Genre: Canadian literature
ISBN:

"Feminism is rapidly developing as a significant critical ideology; it constitutes a major segment of the contemporary writing in English. The two-volume anthology has detailed discussions on the writings of Anita Desai, Shashi Deshpande, Bharati Mukherjee, Arundhati Roy, Manju Kapur, Kamala Das, Githa Hariharan, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and Bapsi Sidhwa. The central objective of the book is to discuss the theoretical investigations carried out by Indian women writers in their works and to arrive at a deeper understanding of feminist contentions." "R. K. Dhawan teaches English at S.B.S. College, University of Delhi. He has lectured extensively at many universities, including those at Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Singapore, Tunisia, Italy and Australia." Publisher's note.

Indian Feminisms

Indian Feminisms
Author: Poonam Kathuria
Publisher: Zubaan
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2018-08-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9385932632

This collection of essays focuses on the post-1980s period of the Indian feminist movement, a moment rich in new and different modes of resistance, of widespread political engagements with issues of rights, of justice, of identity and much more. The writers here, all well-known activists and founders of some of the most important of feminist institutions, describe their individual and collective journeys, bringing attention to the movement, to their struggles, their campaigns, their victories and the challenges they have faced. In using the tools of feminist analysis – a focus on life stories, on oral accounts, on group formation and more – they also make a case for advocacy through legal and socio-political means. Despite being one of the most dynamic of feminist movements in the world, the Indian feminist movement has seldom been recognized as such. And yet, in addressing how women’s oppression and discrimination lie at the intersection of complex inequalities of caste, of region and religion, of class, of patriarchy, race, ethnicity, to name only a few, the writers in this volume make a case for the need for constant introspection, reflection and self-questioning, so that the movement can learn and grow. They show how in India, and indeed across much of South Asia, it is feminists who have stood against capitalism, war and violence, environmental degradation and fundamentalism and have forged alliances with varied movements, learning from them, working strengthening them but also infusing them with a feminist analysis

Feminism and Recent Indian Literature

Feminism and Recent Indian Literature
Author: Rajinder Kumar Dhawan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2009
Genre: Feminism in literature
ISBN:

"Feminism is rapidly developing as a significant critical ideology; it constitutes a major segment of the contemporary writing in English. The two-volume anthology has detailed discussions on the writings of Anita Desai, Shashi Deshpande, Bharati Mukherjee, Arundhati Roy, Manju Kapur, Kamala Das, Githa Hariharan, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and Bapsi Sidhwa. The central objective of the book is to discuss the theoretical investigations carried out by Indian women writers in their works and to arrive at a deeper understanding of feminist contentions." "R. K. Dhawan teaches English at S.B.S. College, University of Delhi. He has lectured extensively at many universities, including those at Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Singapore, Tunisia, Italy and Australia." Publisher's note.

This is Not that Dawn

This is Not that Dawn
Author: Yashpal
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Total Pages: 1146
Release: 2010
Genre: History
ISBN: 014310313X

Jhootha Sach is arguably the most outstanding piece of Hindi literature written about the Partiton. Reviving life in Lahore as it was before 1947,

Chup

Chup
Author: Deepa Narayan
Publisher: Juggernaut Books
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2018
Genre: Feminism
ISBN: 9386228602

Contemporary Women’s Writing in India

Contemporary Women’s Writing in India
Author: Varun Gulati
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2014-12-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1498502113

The word doyenne signifies the various expressions of female, feminine, and feminist aspects of contemporary literature in India, through multiple theoretical frameworks. Contemporary Women’s Writing in India is an edited collection dealing with a range of these issues set in the society of Indian culture. Indian women’s literature is still a fertile ground for critical enquiry. There are three sections in the collection: Section I deals with specific instances in history, historical constructions, and representations of gender. Section II offers a varied spectrum of feminist critical discourse on contemporary Indian women’s writing, intersecting with the frameworks of post-colonial theory, deconstruction, perspectives on race and ethnicity, and eco-feminism. Section III touches upon the notion of the woman’s body and psyche through the varied perspectives of psychoanalysis, feminism, and post-feminism. By thoroughly exploring a range of issues, Contemporary Women’s Writing promises to take the reader by the hand, and journey through the unfamiliar but refreshing landscape of women’s literature in India.

South Asian Feminisms

South Asian Feminisms
Author: Ania Loomba
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2012-03-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 082235179X

This collection intervenes in key areas of feminist scholarship and activism in contemporary South Asia, particularly India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, while asking how this investigation might enrich feminist theorizing and practice globally.