Feminist Folktales from India
Author: Qiron Adhikary
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 110
ISBN-13: 0971412731
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Author: Qiron Adhikary
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 110
ISBN-13: 0971412731
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Douglas A. Vakoch
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2022-08-08
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 166690872X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFollowing Françoise d’Eaubonne’s creation of the term “ecofeminism” in 1974, scholars around the world have explored ways that the degradation of the environment and the subjugation of women are linked. In the nearly three decades since the publication of the classical work Ecofeminism by Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva in 1993, several collections have appeared that apply ecofeminism to literary criticism, also known as feminist ecocriticism. The most recent of these include anthologies that emphasize international perspectives, furthering the comparative task launched by Mies and Shiva. To date, however, there have been no books devoted to gaining a broad-based understanding of feminist ecocriticism in India, understood in its own terms. Our new volume Indian Feminist Ecocriticism offers a survey of literature as seen through an ecofeminist lens by Indian scholars, which places contemporary literary analysis through a sampling of its diverse languages and in the context of millennia-old mythic traditions of India.
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Publisher: Puffin
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 98
ISBN-13: 9780143334958
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThree Heroines Braver, Bolder And More Resolute Than Your Usual Swooning Princesses Of Traditional Fairytales Meet Urmila, Who Is So Ugly That She Makes People Swoon, Kavita, Who Can Take On Giants More Competently Than Any Prince, And Sayoni, Who Has The Power To Tame Even The Wildest Nightmare. These Three Whimsical, Feisty Stories From Master Storyteller Manjula Padmanabhan, Illustrated In Her Characteristically Bold And Quirky Style, Will Delight Readers Of All Ages.
Author: Ethel Johnston Phelps
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
Published: 2016-09-19
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 155861947X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this second volume of folktales, a Punjabi woman outwits seven ruthless thieves, an Incan girl restores harmony to the empire, and a mischievous Norwegian lass thwarts her entitled landowner. Spanning centuries and continents, Kamala recalls how the dazzling courage, cleverness, and power of women have always held our world together.
Author: Ethel Johnston Phelps
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
Published: 2017-07-17
Total Pages: 94
ISBN-13: 1558614265
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe third volume in this beautifully illustrated anthology features traditional tales of heroic women from China to Canada and beyond. Long before Suzanne Collins created Katniss Everdeen and Octavia Butler wrote Parable of the Sower, there were many traditional folktales full of adventure, intrigue, and intrepid female characters. Feminist Folktales from Around the World collects these forgotten classics and presents them with original artwork by designer and illustrator Suki Boynton. Volume three in the series, Sea Girl features an introduction by Daniel Jose Older, the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Lost Saints. In legends from China, Finland, India, Canada, and more, brave heroines encounter monstrous rivers and ogres' nests while outsmarting desperate sharks and hungry tigers. They courageously save families and villages—and, most importantly, they always choose their own fate.
Author: Rachel Meyer
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 176
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Urvashi Butalia
Publisher: Saqi
Published: 2013-01-02
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 1846591694
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWomen's stories in India have been handed down from generation to generation, enriched and embroidered along the way. Political change and the arrival of print culture meant that storytelling was pushed into the background. But in more recent times, these voices have once again come centre-stage - confident, varied and complex. Spanning half a century, this collection covers many languages and cultures, and reflects the vast and complex cultures of the country and its diaspora. It offers a view of the changes that have taken place, both in terms of the subjects women choose to write about and their preferred way of writing about these subjects. From established names such as Mahashveta Devi to the newer generation of young authors, such as Tishani Doshi, Katha brings to the reader a vivid array of voices.
Author: Yashpal
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 1146
ISBN-13: 014310313X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJhootha Sach is arguably the most outstanding piece of Hindi literature written about the Partiton. Reviving life in Lahore as it was before 1947,
Author: Ethel Johnston Phelps
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
Published: 2016-06-20
Total Pages: 181
ISBN-13: 1558619305
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first volume in this beautifully illustrated anthology features traditional tales of heroic women from Japan to Scotland and beyond. Long before Suzanne Collins created Katniss Everdeen and Octavia Butler wrote Parable of the Sower, there were many traditional folktales full of adventure, intrigue, and intrepid female characters. Feminist Folktales from Around the World collects these forgotten classics and presents them with original artwork by designer and illustrator Suki Boynton. Volume one in the series, Tatterhood features an introduction by Gayle Forman, the New York Times bestselling author of If I Stay. These twelves tales from Japan, Norway, Scotland, Sudan, and more, celebrate the cunning, hard work, and physical strength of their heroines. In these pages, a family of three women teaches a burly man how to wrestle, a girl battles a fearsome bear, and a young mother rescues her village from an elephant's stomach.
Author: A. K. Ramanujan
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1997-01-01
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780520203990
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book of oral tales from the south Indian region of Kannada represents the culmination of a lifetime of research by A. K. Ramanujan, one of the most revered scholars and writers of his time. The result of over three decades' labor, this long-awaited collection makes available for the first time a wealth of folktales from a region that has not yet been adequately represented in world literature. Ramanujan's skill as a translator, his graceful writing style, and his profound love and understanding of the subject enrich the tales that he collected, translated, and interpreted. With a written literature recorded from about 800 A.D., Kannada is rich in mythology, devotional and secular poetry, and more recently novels and plays. Ramanujan, born in Mysore in 1929, had an intimate knowledge of the language. In the 1950s, when working as a college lecturer, he began collecting these tales from everyone he could--servants, aunts, schoolteachers, children, carpenters, tailors. In 1970 he began translating and interpreting the tales, a project that absorbed him for the next three decades. When Ramanujan died in 1993, the translations were complete and he had written notes for about half of the tales. With its unsentimental sympathies, its laughter, and its delightfully vivid sense of detail, the collection stands as a significant and moving monument to Ramanujan's memory as a scholar and writer.