South Asian women's narratives : literatures of their own / edited by Somjeeta Pandey and Bidhu Chand Murmu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pandey, Somjeeta, author.

Murmu, Bidhu Chand, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

South Asian literature (English).

South Asian diaspora in literature.

Emigration and immigration in literature.

Home in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (166 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, [2023]

Summary:

This collection on women's narratives includes articles exploring the works of women authors who were either born in South Asia or identified as being from that region. It discusses themes of gender, identity politics, diaspora, trauma, and the new 'self' of women.The volume addresses a great range of creative output by South Asian women authors and examines how their writings critically engage with the social, cultural, and political issues of their times, while also simultaneously exploring the themes of social discrimination, empowerment, and economic exploitation.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Introduction

Being Brown, Doing 'Femme'

Exploring the Diasporic Feminine Body as the Partitioned Site of Trauma, Memory and Translation in the Indo-Caribbean Fictions of Peggy Mohan's Jahajin and Ramabai Espinet's The Swinging Bridge

Partitioning the Land and Spoiling the Woman

Cultures of Silence and Cultures of Violence

Rhetoric of Masculinist Crises

Rereading the Naxalbari Movement (1967-1972)

Diaspora and Contested Spaces of (Un)Belonging

Reading Indian English Women's Detective Fiction

Contributors.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Pandey, Somjeeta South Asian Women's Narratives

ISBN:

1-5275-1530-3