The Indian family in transition [electronic resource] : reading literary and cultural texts / editors, Sanjukta Dasgupta, Malashri Lal.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dasgupta, Sanjukta.

Lal, Malashri.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Families in literature.

Families--India.

Families.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (381 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book critiques literary and cultural representations of the Indian family to explore the manner in which the family and its structure are in transition. The various papers explore (and expose) how the Indian family, whether in India or abroad, needs to be redefined in the current context-in this age of rapid industrialization, globalization (both cultural and economic) and the emergence of new technologies. The family is viewed from a variety of perspectives, as represented in film, theatre and literature-both in English and in the vernacular. Including reflective pieces by several well-k

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; As the Husband, so the Wife; Women and Agency; Modern Families and Independent Living; Women and the Naga Family Today; Society, Family and the Self in Indian Fiction; Imagined Family; The Politics of Home and Food in Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies; Representation of the Family in Marathi Autobiography Written by Dalit Women; Real and Imagined Gujarati Families; Hypocrisy and Hollowness in the Indian Joint Family System; Reflections of Family and Women in Telugu Literature; Globalization and Diasporic Family Dynamics

Food, Family, Widowhood in Ashapurna Devi's Short FictionThe Self and the Family in Telugu Women's Poetry; The Family in Flux; The "Reel" Indian Family; Hunting for Fish; The Family; Thoughts on Home...; Looking Back; Small-Scale Reflections on an Ancestral Home; Indian Families in the World; A Dialog with Amartya Sen; About the Editors and Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-07541-1

9786612075414

81-321-0163-4

OCLC:

403835372