Between Resistance and Conformity Premchands Fiction in Colonial North India

This book examines the questions of conformity and resistance with respect to Premchand's literary corpus. It examines the complexities, challenges, and contradictions of interwar India presented in the writer's work and also analyses his literary representations of women.

Summary

This book examines the questions of conformity and resistance with respect to Premchand’s literary corpus. It examines the complexities, challenges, and contradictions of interwar India presented in the writer's work and also analyses his literary representations of women.

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• Authors: Singh Shailendra Kumar, Shailendra Kumar Singh
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 11.10.2024
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)
• EAN: 9781032859194
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3285919-4
• Pages: 198
• Subjects: Urdu, Hindi, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Indic, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form, peasant studies, gender roles analysis, Comparative Literary criticism, passive peasant protagonist narratives, interwar period India, colonial Indian literature, literary representations women