Gender Space and Creative Imagination - Hardcover

Rekha

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9384082449 ISBN 13: 9789384082444

Publisher: Primus Books, 2015

Synopsis

Gender, Space and Creative Imagination is about contemporary women s writing in India and its experiential, ideological and representational topography. It offers a nuanced critique of the gender-space dialectics that underlines and often engages the attention of women writers in this country.

By critically examining the selected works of Krishna Sobti, Mahasweta Devi, Kamal Desai, Ambai and Githa Hariharan, this book puts in perspective the vibrant heterogeneity of their creative corpus and its attendant concerns. Reading afresh these narratives as empowering aesthetic and discursive endeavours that consciously remap woman s gendered reality, this book helps to unravel Indian women writing s aesthetics of creation, critique and conditioning, and simultaneously puts into perspective its activist shift from re-presentation to self presentation.

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About the Author

Rekha is Professor of English at the Department of Humanities, DCR University of Science & Technology, Murthal, Haryana. She has co-authored, with Anup Beniwal, Arun Joshi: An Enigma of Existence (2010), and contributes regularly to various national and international research journals. Her areas of interest include contemporary Indian women’s writing, culture and communication studies. Currently she is working on the folk and cultural narratives of the festival of Sanjhi.

Edition details

• Publisher: Primus Books
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9384082449
• ISBN 13: 9789384082444
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 234