The agent in the margin : Nayantara Sahgal's Gandhian fiction / Clara A.B. Joseph.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Joseph, Clara A. B.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sahgal, Nayantara, 1927---Criticism and interpretation.

Sahgal, Nayantara.

Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948--Political and social views.

Gandhi.

Althusser, Louis, 1918-1990--Political and social views.

Althusser, Louis.

Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948--Influence.

Althusser, Louis, 1918-1990--Influence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Agent in the Margin: Nayantara Sahgal's Gandhian Fiction is a comprehensive study of the literary works of Nayantara Sahgal, daughter of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit-the first woman president of the United Nations General Assembly-and niece of Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister. Clara A.B. Joseph introduces Mahatma Gandhi's political and philosophical to literary analysis and utilizes non-structuralist aspects of Louis Althusser's theories of ideology to trace how characters marginalized by gender, class, race, and language in Sahgal's work assume agency, challenging postst

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Introduction: Agency in the Margins: Althusser, Gandhi, Sahgal; Chapter One: The Interpellated "I": Gandhian Ideology and the Autobiographical Genre; Chapter Two: The Thinking Subject: Virginity and Swaraj; Chapter Three: The Special Place of Literature: Mahasati, Satyagrahi; Chapter Four: Overdetermination and Truth; Chapter Five: The Resisting Subject: Dignity of Lesser Breeds; Conclusion: Representing the Human Person; Works Cited; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781299313224

1299313221

9781554582815

1554582814

OCLC:

311308115