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Women Writing India: Volume II: The 20th Century (Women Writing in India Vol. II)

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These ground-breaking collections offer 200 texts from eleven languages, never before available in English or as a collection, along with a new reading of cultural history that draws on contemporary scholarship on women and India. This extraordinary body of literature and important documentary resource illuminates the lives of Indian women through 2,600 years of change and extends the historical understanding of literature, feminism, and the making of modern India. The biographical, critical, and bibliographical headnotes in both volumes, supported by an introduction which Anita Desai describes as "intellectually rigorous, challenging, and analytical," place the writers and their selections within the context of Indian culture and history.

Volume II: The Twentieth Century features poetry, fiction, drama, and autobiography by seventy-three writers born after 1905, some widely appreciated in their own time, others neglected or ignored. These works bring into the scope of literary discussion a whole new range of women's experiences and responses to society, politics, desire, marriage, procreation, aging, and death.
Request Code : ZLIBIO3036810
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Year:
1993
Publisher:
THE FEMINIST PRESS CUNY
Language:
English
Pages:
641
ISBN 10:
1558610294
ISBN 13:
9781558610293
ISBN:
1558610294,9781558610293

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