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This volume brings together 34 essays on women's writing, presented by expert scholars from India. They focus on the validity of women's writing and trace its contribution to the construction of a female self. Marginalized as trivial, ghettoized as militant and subversive, opposed to the 'universal' and downgraded as concerned with the victim syndrome, women's writing has finally found a place for itself as voicing the experience of half of humanity. The 'text' of the title works at several levels. There is the literary text: fiction, novel, drama, theory, poetry, and autobiography. There is the socio-cultural text, which moves into the traditional context. There is then the bodily and physical awareness of participation in the making of this text as a reader. 'Contexts' again are multiple: the epistemological, patriarchal, legal, and social. The essays concern themselves with theoretical issues and historical perspectives, with spatial metaphors and discourse analysis, with cultural constructs and linguistic textures, with myth and mythologizing. Rebellion, defiance, madness, fantasy, and comedy are some of the strategies used by women writers to communicate and get their meaning across. The book is of value, not only to the young scholar and the fresh initiate, but it is also of equal significance to serious scholars of literature, history, and socio-cultural studies.
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Jasbir Jain is director of the Institute for Research in Interdisciplinary Studies (IRIS), Jaipur. Formerly of the University of Rajasthan, she has headed the Department of English and has worked in various capacities including the directorship of the Academic Staff College.Jain has travelled extensively and has been the recipient of several awards. Amongst them are the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship as Writer in Residence (2009), UGC Fellow (2005 2007), Emeritus Fellow (2002 2004) and K.K. Birla Fellowship for Comparative Literature (1998 2000). Elected life-member of Clare Hall, Cambridge, she has also availed of the Fulbright Fellowship and of the American Council of Learned Societies. In 2008, the South Asia Literary Association conferred on her the SALA Award for her work in Feminist and South Asian Studies and her distinguished scholarship. Earlier in 2004, she was awarded the Indian Association of Canadian Studies (IACS) Award in recognition of her outstanding contribution to Canadian Studies. The American Association of Colleges and Universities nominated her a Global Fellow for 2003.Her publications include three volumes on the Indian novel covering the period 1860 2000 and, interrogating the periodisation thrust on it, she went on to work on the connectivity across languages. Her current interests are in theory and narratology and in exploring traditions. Her recent work includes "Gendered Realities "and "Beyond Postcolonialism: The Dreams and Realities of a Nation "and a forthcoming work is "The Writer as Critic".
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- PublisherRawat Publications
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 8131606368
- ISBN 13 9788131606360
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages400
- EditorJain Jasbir
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 3rd Edition. This volume brings together thirty-four essays on women s writing. They focus on the validity of women s writing and trace its contribution to the construction of a female self. Marginalised as trivial, ghettoised as militant and subversive, opposed to the universal and downgraded as concerned with the victim syndrome, women s writing has finally found a place for itself as voicing the experience of half of humanity. The Text of the title works at several levels. There is first of all the literary text: fiction, novel, drama, theory, poetry and autobiography. There is the socio-cultural text which moves into the traditional context. There is then the bodily and physical awareness of participation in the making of this text as a reader. Contexts again are multiple: epistemological, patriarchal, legal and social. The essays in this volume concern themselves with theoretical issues and historical perspectives, with spatial metaphors and discourse analysis, with cultural constructs and linguistic textures, with myth and mythologising and history and dehistoricising. Rebellion, defiance, madness, fantasy, and comedy are some of the strategies used by women writers to communicate and get their meaning across. The work is of value not only to the young scholar and the fresh initiate, but it is also of equal significance to serious scholars of literature and history and of socio-cultural studies. New to this third edition is the revised and updated introduction and three new essays expanding the horizon of this text. Seller Inventory # 112352
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