Gendering the narrative : Indian English fiction and gender discourse / edited by Nibedita Mukherjee.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mukherjee, Nibedita, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indic fiction (English)--History and criticism.

Indic fiction (English).

Indic fiction (English)--Women authors--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (156 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.

Summary:

This volume brings together a number of recent critical essays on aspects of gender discourse visible in Indian English fiction. The articles included here address the multiple aspects of gender identity and open up doors for a number of varied interpretations. The authors considered range from Saratchandra to R Raj Rao, from Jhabvala to Manju Kapur. The contributions investigate a range of features of gender discourse, including feminism, masculinity, and homosexuality. As such, the volume represents an indispensable companion to any scholar of gender studies interested in the perspectives pr

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. One Gender Discourse and Indian English Fiction: An Introduction / Nibedita Mukherjee

ch. Two The Third Sex: The Oppressed Man in Patriarchy / Lonchanaro Longkumer

ch. Three Queer Kinship in New Queer India: From Wadia's Bomgay to R. Raj Rao's "Crocodile Tears" / Rohit K. Dasgupta

ch. Four Is the Homosexual an Invisible Being? "Comrade Love" in the Select Fiction of Rohinton Mistry and Amitav Ghosh / Bondina Elangbam

ch. Five Indian Chick Lit: Desiring or Deriding the "Other"? / Srijanee Roy

ch. Six Gender, Sex and the Psychodynamics of an Eternal Quest in The Dark Holds No Terror / Jyoti Kala

ch. Seven A Quest for Masculinity: Balram's Life in Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger / M. S. Veena

ch. Eight The Flavour of Emancipation in Manju Kapur's Novels / Anwesha Roy Chaudhuri

ch. Nine Gendering the Shared Narrative: Reading Ice-Candy Man, A Different Sita and The Missing Queen / Sutapa Chaudhuri

ch. Ten "To tell a little bit of the other side of the story": Revisiting Iconic Female Myths / Enakshi Banerjee

ch. Eleven Draupadi: Surviving, Subverting and Resisting the Fear and Shame of Rape / Stuti Dinesh Sharma

ch. Twelve Subverting the Patriarchy and Reshaping Feminine Identity: Rokeya Sakhawat Hosain's Sultana's Dream and Padmarag / Md. Kamran Ahsan

ch. Thirteen Pooro in Pinjar. A Symbol of the Woman's Cry against her Existential Fate and Social Abuse / Charu Chitra

ch. Fourteen Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's Heat and Dust: A Feminist Reading / Amrita Ghosh.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 16, 2016).

ISBN:

1-4438-8467-7

OCLC:

925281263