Mango-Coloured Fish
Mango-Coloured Fish

Author: Kaveri Nambisan

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2000-10-14

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 9385890417

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An exciting new novel from the best-selling author of The Scent of Pepper Shari’s life has always been controlled by others—a domineering mother, a too-perfect sister and a kind but passive father have seen to it that her choices are shaped more by the demands of social propriety than by her own will. Inevitably, she finds herself agreeing to marry the man of their choice. But tormented by the ghosts of the past and increasingly uncertain about her decision to marry, she flees to her brother’s house in Vrindaban a few weeks before the wedding—much to the shock and dismay of her mother. Even as she gets drawn into the busy and entirely unpredictable lives of her brother and sister-in-law, both doctors, Shari grapples with her memories: her relationship with Naren, her blind friend, and the traumatic discovery of the truth about Uncle and Aunt Paru whom she had always considered her surrogate parents. And as she makes peace with her past, she finds in herself the strength to confront her own future. Richly textured and boldly perceptive, Mango-coloured Fish is the heartwarming story of a young woman’s attempt to strike out on her own.

New Woman in Indian Literature: From Covert to Overt
New Woman in Indian Literature: From Covert to Overt

Author: Dipak Giri

Publisher: Vishwabharati Research Centre, Latur, Maharashtra, India

Published: 2018-01-01

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 9387966747

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Since there was hardly any book written on the concept of ‘New Woman’ compiling the works of Indian English writers, the author had long-felt desire to bring out a compact volume in this field. The present volume is like a dream come true as it prepares the solid ground for the long-cherished desire of the author. The book New Woman in Indian English Literature: From Covert to Overt is an attempt to combining the varied shapes of new emerging trend of womanhood in Indian English Literature into a single whole. The book covers twenty six well explored articles on this recent trend of writing which has been fast growing since last few decades. The contributing authors are very deep, sincere and reflective in the articulation of their original ideas and views. Authors are hopeful that the book will bring into focus many new things and ideas yet to be explored and thus will be useful to critical minds.

Rewriting Resistance: Caste and Gender in Indian Literature
Rewriting Resistance: Caste and Gender in Indian Literature

Author: Rakibul Islam

Publisher: Vernon Press

Published: 2022-05-10

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 1648894143

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‘Rewriting Resistance: Caste and Gender in Indian Literature’ explores the claustrophobic shadow of discrimination hanging over Indian women and lower caste people from ancient times. It examines how different literary figures paint a vivid and descriptive picture of the physical and psychological oppression faced throughout India. The book traces feminist resistance, subaltern resistance, and resistance during the anti-colonial struggle, with the literary outputs discussed working as socio-political activity against dominant ideologies. The volume further talks about the responsibility, not only of those oppressed, but also of us as human beings, to speak out against the violation of human rights and for justice. So, the book focuses on the literary writers who always dream of a better India where all people, regardless of their caste, class and gender, can live and breathe freely. The book is divided into three parts. Part I describes the plight of women, their commodification and the politics around them, and how they fight hard to regain their faded identity. Part II depicts the interesting findings on gender-caste intersections and discrimination. Part III explores the struggle of the low caste, specifically male members of Dalit community, along with their history. It further portrays how orthodoxy in rituals creates the burden of traditional and existential crises. ‘Rewriting Resistance: Caste and Gender in Indian Literature’ re-visits Indian literary texts in terms of what they reveal about the resistance registered through the suffering of human beings (women and Dalits) at the hands of fellow human beings, and further links the discussion to our contemporary situation. The book has a unique quality in that it is not only a detailed study of select Indian English texts, but also delves into an in-depth analysis of texts from Bengali, Urdu, and Hindi literature. The work is likely to affect and appeal to students, scholars and academics, and can be adopted for classroom teaching and research purposes as well.

The Fusing Horizons
The Fusing Horizons

Author: N. Kalamani

Publisher: Sarup & Sons

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 9788176258487

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Papers presented at the National Seminar on Literature and Environment, held at Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University in February 2012.

On Wings of Butterflies
On Wings of Butterflies

Author: Kavery Nambisan

Publisher: Penguin Books India

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9780143028116

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Imagine a world where women can do what they please, the way they please, and men be damned! When a determined young woman in Panjim sets out to unite 'the world's largest minority', the ripples are felt in the lives of thousands across the country: crusty career women, complacent housewives, angst-ridden teenagers, and of course, men who had never conceived of a world where women ruled! Leading the battle from the front are a bunch of passionate, straight-talking women: Fierce, man-hating Lividia; politically savvy Kripa; gutsy police officer Tara; the sultry Rani of Kantipur; and their unlikely motivator: twenty-year-old Evita, scarred by childhood memories of her mother's sexual encounters and fiercely committed to the Cause. As the women come together quietly, relentlessly, from all over the country, the rest of the world can only watch in stupefied silence. Will they win their war for justice? Or will fate--and man--intervene yet again? From the best-selling author of Scent of Pepper

Shared Waters
Shared Waters

Author: Stella Borg Barthet

Publisher: Rodopi

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 9042027665

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The present volume contains general essays on: unequal African/Western academic exchange; the state and structure of postcolonial studies; representing male violence in Zimbabwe's wars; parihaka in the poetic imagination of Aotearoa New Zealand; Middle Eastern, Nigerian, Moroccan, and diasporic Indian women's writing; community in post-Independence Maltese poetry in English; key novels of the Portuguese colonies; the TV series The Kumars at No. 42; fictional representations of India; the North in western Canadian writing; and a pedagogy of African-Canadian literature. As well as these, there is a selection of poems from Malta by Daniel Massa, Adrian Grima, Norbert Bugeja, Immanuel Mifsud, and Maria Grech Ganado, and essays providing close readings of works by the following authors and filmmakers: Thea Astley, George Elliott Clarke, Alan Duff, Francis Ebejer, Lorena Gale, Romesh Gunesekera, Sahar Khalīfah, Anthony Minghella, Michael Ondaatje, Caryl Phillips, Edgar Allan Poe, Salman Rushdie, Ghādah al-Sammān, Meera Syal, Lee Tamahori. Contributors: Leila Abouzeid, Hoda Barakat, Amrit Biswas, Thomas Bonnici, Stella Borg Barthet, Ivan Callus, Devon Campbell-Hall, Saviour Catania, George Elliott Clarke, Brian Crow, Pilar Cuder-Domínguez, Bärbel Czennia, Hilary P. Dannenberg, Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo, Bernadette Falzon, Daphne Grace, Adrian Grima, Kifah Hanna, Janne Korkka, T. Vijay Kumar, Chantal Kwast-Greff, Maureen Lynch Pèrcopo, Kevin Stephen Magri, Isabel Moutinho, Melanie A. Murray, Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju, Gerhard Stilz, Jesús Varela Zapata, Christine Vogt-William.

The Hills of Angheri
The Hills of Angheri

Author: Kavery Nambisan

Publisher: Penguin Books India

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9780143032717

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For As Long As Nalli Can Remember, The Guardians Of Her Village Of Angheri, The Hills That Have So Often Come Alive In Her Grandfather S Stories, Have Been Asking Her To Do Something With Her Life ... Twelve-Year-Old Nalli Is Restless To Pursue A Dream Rather Unusual For A Girl In Her Traditional Society: She Wants To Be A Doctor. After All, How Else Will She Stand By Jai Her Friend And Hero When He Returns As A Qualified Surgeon To Start Angheri S Very Own Hospital? Adamantly Resisting All The Objections Her Family Raises, Nalli Travels To Madras And Then To London To Study, And Experiences A World She Had Never Imagined. She Learns To Keep Her Voice Down And Sit With Her Knees Together, Is Haunted By Subbu, The First Human Cadaver She Cuts Up, And Encounters Complicated Medical Cases That Test Her Faith In The Values Appa Taught Her To Live By And Her Own Skills As A Surgeon. Yet, For All Her Adventures, Nalli Yearns Constantly For A Sight Of Angheri S Hills, For Ajja S Gods And Appa S Advice, And, Most Of All, For The Hospital Of Her Dreams To Become A Reality. But Her Return Home Is Fraught With Heartbreak And Disillusion, And Nalli Sets Off Again, This Time To Remote Keshavganj, In Search Of Solace And The Fulfilment Of Her Heart S Desire . . . Sensitive And Humorous, Graceful And Invariably Engaging, Kavery Nambisan S Latest Novel Tells The Story Of A Young Surgeon Coming To Terms With The Untidiness Of Life And Her Profession.

Indian English Literature
Indian English Literature

Author: KRISHNA SHARMA

Publisher: Krishna Kumar Sharma

Published: 2020-09-08

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13:

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This book has been designed to help the students who want to crack the exams like NET JRF, SET SLET, TGT PGT, etc. It contains several writers and their important works in detail that is useful and exam-oriented. Once you read it, you will recommend this book to others, this is expected.

In Search of a Feminist Writer
In Search of a Feminist Writer

Author: Dr. Rohidas Nitonde

Publisher: Partridge Publishing

Published: 2014-07-16

Total Pages: 149

ISBN-13: 1482833905

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In this scholarly book Dr. Rohidas Nitonde examines Manju Kapurs novels with a feminist perspective. The study offers an in depth analysis of all the five novels by Kapur. It is for the first time that all her works are illustrated with a single perspective. The focus of argument leads to conclude on Kapurs vision of Indian womanhood. The book explains Kapurs indubitable ability to explore the psyche of the present day urban, educated middle-class Indian woman who is trapped in the midway between tradition and modernity. It is an attempt to study Kapurs women protagonists, as portrayed by her in her novels, with a view to understand and appreciate their trials and tribulations under the impact of the conflicting influence of tradition and modernity and to critically analyze their response to the emerging situation in life so as to fit themselves in the contemporary society. It also probes deeply into the novelists conviction of what would serve as the ideal panacea for the different kinds of challenges faced by her female characters. It as well explores both the daring and desires of the Indian women in the fictional works of Kapur. The study is divided into seven chapters. The first chapter is introductory in nature. The subsequent five chapters deal with the five women protagonists Virmati, Astha, Nisha, Nina and Ishita who, finding themselves trapped in the roles assigned to them by the society, attempt to assert their individuality. Sensitive to the changing times and situations, they revolt against the traditions in their search for freedom. The last chapter concludes the study by bringing out the general statement about Kapurs female protagonists. Its Bibliography and Webliography sections are exhaustive. This has turned the authoritative work into an indispensable resource for academicians and research scholars. It is an invaluable reference on Manju Kapur.