Gender Perspectives: South Asian Writing in English and in English Translations

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� Some Stray Thought on Great Literature (Mainly Poetry) � Letters to Friends: Tagore, Priyanath Sen and Jadunath Sarkar � Writing the Gendered Realities of a Nation: Hosseini�s The Kite Runner � Representation of Afghan Women in A Thousand Splendid Suns: A Feminist Reading � Salam Azad and Partition Fiction � Partition �After�: Situating Abdul Ghani Sheikh � The Mutation of Draupdi in Bachint Kaur�s Draupdi andMahasweta Devi�s Draupdi � Defining Heterodoxy: Songs of Lalan Sai � Negotiating Private and Public Space: Women in Temsula Ao�s Laburnum for My Head � Severed States, Marked Bodies: Reading Women, Reading History In Partition Fiction � Writing Orality,Telling Histories:A Study of the Oral Narratives of the Bongcher Community of Tripura in English Translation � Narrating the Self:A Study of Two Dalit Autobiographies � Interview with Bama Faustina; A Dalit Activist Writer � The Response of Sarojini Naidu to Western Literature: A Study of her Early Letters � The Theme of Subalternity and Sexual Politics: Indira Goswami�s Nilakanthi Braja � Living in the Hills: A Geographical Reading of Temsula Ao�s Hill Poems � Themes and Recurring Images in Some of Rajendra Bhandari�s Poems � Anglo-Nepali Creative Writers/Translators of Different Genres � A Short History of English Writing in Nepali � The Voice of Protest: Tehmina Durrani�s Blasphemy and My Feudal Lord � Writing from the Margin: Reading Mukhtar Mai�s in The Name of Honour � Crisis of Identity after 9/11: A Study of Mohsin Hamid�s The Reluctant Fundamentalist � �Out of Our Prisons We Emerge� Self in the Works of Jean Arasanayagam

Gender Perspectives: South Asian Writing in English and in English Translations by Basudeb Chakraborti.

266 pages · · Published 2014

Subjects: English Language and Literature, Agriculture Extension/Rural Development