Writing Gender, Writing Nation (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

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Indian women's writing across languages, texts, and contexts constitutes a unique narrative of the post-independence nation. It facilitates a pan-Indian understanding of the concerns taken up by the women writers, showing 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. This volume explores the gendered contexts of Indian nation through a rigorous analysis of selected women's fiction ranging from diverse linguistic, regional, geographical, caste, class and regional contexts. It highlights the ways in which the women writers negotiate the patriarchal biases embedded in the epistemological and institutional structures of the post-independence nation state. The author discusses works of Amrita Pritam, Jyotirmoyee Devi, Mannu Bhandari, Mahasweta Devi, Mridula Garg, Nayantara Sahgal, Indira Goswami, Alka Saraogi to name a few.



The volume argues that women writers in the process of writing about gender relations, comment, negotiate, reflect upon the socio-economic, political, juridical, and capitalist processes of the nation state. The book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of gender studies, women's studies, English literature, political sociology and political studies.