Feminism and Contemporary Indian Women''s Writing

Informationen zum Autor ELIZABETH JACKSON is a Sessional Lecturer in Literature at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK, where she teaches courses on Victorian, colonial and postcolonial literatures. She has also taught at Goldsmiths College, University of London, where she earned her PhD in 2007. Klappentext This book is a comparative and developmental study of the expression of feminist concerns in the novels of Kamala Markandaya, Nayantara Sahgal, Anita Desai, and Shashi Deshpande, among the best known and most prolific Indian novelists writing in English, who have been self-consciously engaged with women's issues during the postcolonial era. Zusammenfassung This book is a comparative and developmental study of the expression of feminist concerns in the novels of Kamala Markandaya! Nayantara Sahgal! Anita Desai! and Shashi Deshpande! among the best known and most prolific Indian novelists writing in English! who have been self-consciously engaged with women's issues during the postcolonial era. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Women, Cultural Identity, and Social Class Marriage and Sexuality Motherhood and Other Work Women's Role in Maintaining and/or Resisting Patriarchy Form and Narrative Strategy Conclusion References Bibliography Index

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Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Women, Cultural Identity, and Social Class Marriage and Sexuality Motherhood and Other Work Women's Role in Maintaining and/or Resisting Patriarchy Form and Narrative Strategy Conclusion References Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: E Jackson, E. Jackson, Elizabeth Jackson, Prof. Elizabeth Jackson, JACKSON ELIZABETH
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.01.2010
• EAN: 9780230236271
• ISBN: 978-0-230-23627-1
• No. of pages: 209
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; B, Gender Studies, Literature, History, Sociology, Feminism, Feminism & feminist theory, Asian History, Gender studies, gender groups, World Literature, Feminist Theory, Feminism and feminist theory, History, Modern, Modern History, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Palgrave Literature Collection, Postcolonial/World Literature, Asia—History, bibliography;feminism;India;novel;women