Gender perspectives: South Asian writings in english and in english translations/
Edited by Basudeb Chakraborti and A. S. Chandel
- New Delhi : Today & Tomorrow's Printers and Publishers, 2014.
- xvii,251p. 24cm.
Contributed articles.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Section 1. General 1. Some stray thought on great literature (Mainly Poetry) / Amaresh Dutta -- 2. Letters to friends: Tagore, Priyanath Sen and Jadunath Sarkar / Tirthankar Cattopadhyay
Section 2. Afghanistan 3. Writing the gendered realities of a nation: Hosseini's The Kite Runner / Jayita Senguta -- Representation of Afghan Women in A Thousand Splendid Suns: A Feminist Reading / Payel Chowdhury
Section 3. Bangladesh 5. Salam Azad and Partition Fiction / Kalyan Chatterjee
Section 4. India 6. Partition " After": situating Abdul Ghani Sheikh / Angshuman Kar -- 7. The Mutation of Draupdi in bachint Kaur's Drupdi and Mahasweta Devi's Draupdi / Archana Sahni -- 8. Defining Heterodoxy: songs of Lalan Sai / Chirantan Sarkar -- Negotiating private and public space: women in Temsula Ao's Laburnum for my head / Harjit Goswami -- 10. Severed states, marked bodies: reading women, reading history in partition fiction / Paramita Halder -- 11. Writing orality, telling histories: as study of the oral narratives of the Bongecher community of Tripura in English Translation / Partha Sarathi Gupta -- 12. Narrating the self: a study of two Dalit autobiographies / Sankar Sinha -- 13. Interview with Bama Faustina: a Dalit activist writer / Basudeb Chakraborti -- 14. The response of Sarojini Naidu to Western literature: a study of ther early letters / Santanu Ganguly -- 15. The theme of Subalternity and Sexual politics: Indira Goswami' Nilakanthi Braja -- 16. Living in the hills: a georaphical reading of Temsula Ao's Hill poems / Sayantan Chakarborty -- 17. Themes and Recurring images in some of Rajendra Bhandari's poems / Shobha Sharma
Section 5. Nepal 18. Anglo-Nepali Creative Writers/Translators of different Genres / Deepa Pradhan -- 19. A short history of Englsh writing in Nepali/Pratap Chandra Pradhan -- 20. The voice of Protest: Tehmina Durrani's Blasphamy and my Feudal Lord / Basudeb Chakraborti -- 21. Writing from the margin: reading Mukhtar Mai's in The Name of Honour / Himadri Lahiri -- 22. Crisis of identity after 9/11: a study of Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundaentalsit/ Pramila Chettri
Section 7. Sri Lanka 23. " Out of our prisons We Emerge" self in the works of Jean Arasanayagam / Alka Nigam
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South Asian literature (English)--History and criticism. South Asian literature--History and criticism. Women in literature. People with social disabilities in literature.