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This book offers a comprehensive understanding of the Amrita Pritam's work by situating it in the context of not just Punjabi literature but Indian literature, while showcasing their continued relevance in contemporary times.
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Foreword Preface Introduction Chronology Part I: She Wrote Thus ...1. Poetry 2. Fiction 3. Autobiography, Letters, Prose, and Editorials Part II: Amrita Pritam: Milieu and Times 4. Punjab and Punjabi: A Brief Overview of the Land and its Literature 5. Poets, Rebels, Comrades: Literary Culture and her Contemporaries Part III: Facets of Creative Experience 5. The Birth of a New Poetic Sensibility 6. Amrita Pritam, the Storyteller: Novels, Novellas and Short Stories Part IV: Scripting the Self: I am Amrita 7. Biography 8. Interviews and Essays 9. Editing Nagmani: Creating a Community of Writers Part V: Conclusion: Amrita's Enduring Relevance 10. Amrita... Then and Today 11. Amrita Pritam and her works on Celluloid Bibliography
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Hina Nandrajog is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and currently serving as Officiating Principal, Vivekananda College, University of Delhi. She is an academic, scholar, critic, teacher and translator. Her areas of interest are the Partition of India in 1947 from a historical and literary perspective, the idea of diversity and multi-linguality in India and translation. She is an avid translator from Punjabi and Hindi into English and has won several awards.
Prem Kumari Srivastava is Professor of English with University of Delhi at Maharaja Agrasen College. With several publications including 11 books (authored and edited), many research papers, book chapters, review articles, translations and creative writing: poems and stories, her research displays an overarching focus on the "other": the popular, the indigenous, the non-urban and gender within Cultural Studies. Her recent publications are Tribal Literature and Oral Expressions in India (2021) and Indian Popular Fiction: New Genres, Novel Spaces (2021).
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This book offers a comprehensive understanding of the Amrita Pritam’s work by situating it in the context of not just Punjabi literature but Indian literature, while showcasing their continued relevance in contemporary times.
