Teaching Anglophone South Asian women writers / edited by Deepika Bahri and Filippo Menozzi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bahri, Deepika, 1962- editor.

Menozzi, Filippo, editor.

Series:

Options for teaching ; v. 5.

Options for teaching, 1079-2562 ; volume 52

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

South Asian literature (English)--Women authors--Study and teaching (Higher).

South Asian literature (English).

English literature--South Asian authors--Study and teaching (Higher).

English literature.

South Asian literature (English)--Women authors--History and criticism.

Feminism and literature--South Asia.

Feminism and literature.

Women authors.

English literature--South Asian authors.

South Asia.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xi, 379 pages : maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2021.

Summary:

""Offers pedagogical techniques for teaching South Asian women's writing in English, including consideration of colonization and imperialism, Partition, war, migration and diaspora, tradition and modernity, global capitalism, climate change, gender and sexuality, and intersectionality. Gives syllabus suggestions for undergraduate and graduate courses in postcolonial literature, world literature, and women's studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Narrating History and Identity

History And Story In South Asian Women's Writing / Stephen Morton

Reframing Partition: Gender, Migration, And Storytelling In Postcolonial Conflict / Kavita Daiya

Gender, Caste, And Capital In The God Of Small Things / Gurleen Grewal

Small Remedies: Shashi Deshpande Treats Political Violence / Josna E. Rege

Teaching Parsi Women Writers In Mumbai / Nilufer E. Bharucha

Contemporary Anglophone Sri Lankan Women Authors / Ruvani Ranasinha

War And Identity: Writing The Sri Lankan Ethnic Conflict / Maryse Jayasuriya

Interior Spaces In Tahmima Anam's A Golden Age / Harleen Singh

Intimations Of Modernity: The Legacy Of Toru Dutt / Alpana Sharma

pt. II Language, Form, and Translation

(Re)Membering The Past: Linguistic Dislocation In Anita Desai's Clear Light Of Day / Indrani Mitra

Literature And Gender In Anita Desai's In Custody / Aruni Mahapatra

Approaching The Unknowable: Teaching Mahasweta Devi In The United States / Henry Schwarz

Mira Nair's Independence Of Vision: Film Adaptations Of The Namesake And The Reluctant Fundamentalist / Ambreen Hai

Graphic Novels In The Classroom: A Postcolonial, Queer Methodology / Sushmita Chatterjee

Contemporary Chick Lit In Indian English / Padmini Mongia

pt. III Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality

Place And Gender In Pakistani Women's Writing / Cara Cilano

Dalit Feminism: Teaching Bama's Karukku To American Undergraduates / Nalini Iyer

Intersections With Feminist Disability Theory In South Asian Women's Writing / Pushpa Parekh

Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain's Sultana's Dream / Susmita Roye

South Asian Feminisms And The Politics Of Representation / Antonia Navarro-Tejero

No Longer Just Victims: New Fiction And New Gender Roles / Lisa Lau

South Asian Muslim Women's Writing / Roger Mcnamara

A Patchwork Of Desire: Queering Translations Of Ismat Chughtai's "The Quilt" / Krupa Shandilya

Teaching Suniti Namjoshi In Montana / Ruth Vanita

pt. IV Situated Pedagogy: The Text and the World

Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine: Unsettling Nation And Narration / Reshmi Hebbar

Anglophone South Asian Women's Fiction: A Marxist, Intersectional Approach / Pranav Jani

Teaching South Asian Women's Writing In Finland / Joel Kuortti

Sujata Bhatt's Poetry In A Cross-Cultural German Context / Cecile Sandten

Teaching South Asian Women's Writing To South Asian Students / Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan

Counter-Narratives Of Liberal Multiculturalism In Jhumpa Lahiri's the Namesake / Shane A. Mccoy

Arundhati Roy's Nonfiction Writing / Rajini Srikanth

Landscape And The Environmental Picturesque In Kiran Desai's the Inheritance Of Loss / Jill Didur

South Asian Women's Poetry As World Literature / Deepika Bahri

pt. V Resources.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Narrating History and Identity. History and Story in South Asian Women's Writing / Stephen Morton -- Reframing Partition: Gender, Migration, and Storytelling in Postcolonial Conflict / Kavita Daiya -- Gender, Caste, and Capital in The God of Small Things / Gurleen Grewal -- Small Remedies: Shashi Deshpande Treats Political Violence / Josna E. Rege -- Teaching Parsi Women Writers in Mumbai / Nilufer E. Bharucha -- Contemporary Anglophone Sri Lankan Women Authors / Ruvani Ranasinha -- War and Identity: Writing the Sri Lankan Ethnic Conflict / Maryse Jayasuriya -- Interior Spaces in Tahmima Anam's A Golden Age / Harleen Singh -- Intimations of Modernity: The Legacy of Toru Dutt / Alpana Sharma -- Language, Form, and Translation. (Re)membering the Past: Linguistic Dislocation in Anita Desai's Clear Light of Day / Indrani Mitra -- Literature and Gender in Anita Desai's In Custody / Aruni Mahapatra -- Approaching the Unknowable: Teaching Mahasweta Devi in the United States / Henry Schwarz -- Mira Nair's Independence of Vision: Film Adaptations of The Namesake and The Reluctant Fundamentalist / Ambreen Hai -- Graphic Novels in the Classroom: A Postcolonial, Queer Methodology / Sushmita Chatterjee -- Contemporary Chick Lit in Indian English / Padmini Mongia -- Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality. Place and Gender in Pakistani Women's Writing / Cara Cilano -- Dalit Feminism: Teaching Bama's Karukku to American Undergraduates / Nalini Iyer -- Intersections with Feminist Disability Theory in South Asian Women's Writing / Pushpa Parekh.

Other Format:

Online version: Teaching Anglophone South Asian women writers

ISBN:

9781603294898

1603294899

9781603294904

1603294902

OCLC:

1193581722