Images and Representation of the Rural Woman (A Study of the Selected Novels of Indian Women Writers ) - Hardcover

Jaiwanti Dimri

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8179860949 ISBN 13: 9788179860946

Publisher: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, 2012

Synopsis

Language: English
Pages: 348


About The Book

The construct of the rural woman is vitally significant for the centrality of the village in the Indian literary canon. The concentration of the Indian English feminist canon on the urban-centric metropolitan discourse to the marginalization of native, subaltern voices and traditions from varying geographical and culture sites in the national state in terms of caste, class, religion and gender posits the need to relocate the marginalized rural centre and reclaim and reinvent the rural woman’s images in the backdrop of the polemic of representation and pedagogy, on the one hand, and the nuanced multi-layered, multi-faced and multi-dimensional embedded caste and class structure, on the other. In this study Dimri examines the image of rural woman and her representation in eight novels of kamala Markandaya and Arundhati Roy (English), Maitreye Pushpa (Hindi), Ashapurna Devi (Bengali), Indira Goswami (Assamese), M.K. Indira (Kannada) and Dalip Kaur Tiwana (Punjabi). The focus in this study is not so much on tracing a line of normative fictional image, but more on the exploration of new tropes and trajectories in the nation state.

The construction, popularization, memorization hierachisation and omission of any social or culture-specific image has never been an innocent act, and is by and large, determined by the paradigms of dominance and subordination in patriarchy, the culture priorities of a community, and at the larger level by the social and political agency. Representation is currently a much debated issue in all discourse postcolonial, feminist, subaltern as well as culture studies. The focus in this study is not so much on the stereotyped representation of rural woman, but on the varying modes of acceptance and resista

Edition details

• Publisher: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8179860949
• ISBN 13: 9788179860946
• Binding: Hardcover