1st Edition
Writing Gender, Writing Nation Women’s Fiction in Post-Independence India
By Bharti Arora
Copyright 2020
232 Pages
by
Routledge India
232 Pages
by
Routledge India
232 Pages
by
Routledge India
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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... Read more
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Women as ‘citizens’: gendered violence in Partition narratives by women
2 Feminist negotiation of autarchy: going beyond victimhood
3 Negotiating structural inequalities: marriage, domesticity, divorce, and widowhood in post-independence India
4 Economic liberalisation, cultural Ghettoisation, and their impact on the gendered contexts
5 Writings from the margins: Dalit and Muslim women’s narratives
Conclusion
Appendix
Biography
Bharti Arora is a faculty member of the Department of English, Tagore Government Arts and Science College, Pondicherry, India.
