Signifying the Self - Women and Literature

Signifying the Self - Women and Literature

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Author: Malashri Lal
Shormishtha Panja/Sumanyu Satpathy
Editor(s): Malashri Lal / Shormishtha Panja etc
Publisher: Macmillan
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 279
ISBN/UPC (if available): 1403924058

Description

Signifying the Self-Women and Literature is a collection of essays that explores the multifarious expressions of feminism in India. It is divided into five sections: women’s autobiography, writing by Dalit women of Bengal, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh; regional and global issues in women’s writing; same-sex love in women’s literature & film and the male gaze.

Dealing with texts as disparate as Tagore’s early twentieth century novel Choker Bali and Deepa Mehta’s contemporary film Fire, short stories by Assamese women writers, fiction by Mahasweta Devi, poetry by contemporary Bengali women poets, autobiographical writing by Ismat Chugtai and Bama-the collection is an important new interrogation of feminism and what it means to Indian writers. It will be of use to scholars and concerned readers alike.

Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION

PART I: WRITING LIVES

Domain, Domination and Domesticity: Nationalism, Gender and Women’s Writing in Colonial India

Rabati’s Sister: Early Oriya Women’s Writing

I-ing Ismat: Autobiographical Ismat Chughtai

PART II: DALIT PERSPECTIVES

Visionary cartography: Imaginary Maps by Mahasweta Devi

Songs and Stories of Dalit Women in Gujarat

Caste, Religion and Gender: Forms of Oppression in Telugu Dalit Women’s Poetry

Caste and Gender Interface in Tamil Dalit Discourse

PART III: LOCAL TO GLOBAL

Insurgency and Women Writers of Assam

Feminism and Contemporary Bengali Women’s Poetry

Multilocality: International Themes in Women’t Short Stories in English

PART IV: SAME-SEX LOVE

Lesbianism as Resistance: Sex, Gender and Identity Politics in Deepa Mehta’ Fire

At all times Near: Love Between Women in Two Medieval Indian Devotional Texts

PART V: THE MALE GAZE

Rabindranath Tagore’s Chokher Bali: The New Woman, Conjugality and The Heterogeneity of Home

Distorted Female Characters in the Early Fiction of Salman Rushdie

The Page and the Stage: The Representation of Women in Two Plays by Mahesh Dattani

Notes

Notes on the Contributors

Index