Tohellwithyou Mitro

Tohellwithyou Mitro

Author: Kr̥shṇa Sobatī

Publisher: Katha

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 9788187649557

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Krishna Sobti's lively, unapologetic portrayal of a married woman who brooks no limits to her sexuality is as compelling, pertinent and provocative today as when it first shook the Hindi literary world in 1966. Katha presents another masterpiece from one of the most spirited writers of our times. Mitro Marjani was not a writer's story ... I was amazed at the surprises Mitro gave me at every turn. Brought up outside the walls of patriarchy ... Mitro is her mother's daughter who can voice her desires and get away with it. She has no inhibitions about talking of things tabooed by tradition. She really impressed me .- Krishna Sobti


The Bride in the Cultural Imagination

The Bride in the Cultural Imagination

Author: Jo Parnell

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2020-11-13

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 1793616140

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This essay collection examines the cultural and personal world of girls and women at a time when their lives, their person, their realities, and their status are about to change forever. Together, the chapters cleverly create an in-depth study of the subject, and look at several cultural forms to offer a different approach to the popularly-held views of the bride. The critical essays in this edited collection are thematically driven and include global perspectives of the portrayals of the bride in the films, stage productions and pop-culture narratives from Nigeria; Kenya; Uganda; Tanzania; Spain; Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome; Tajikistan; India; Egypt; and the South-Eastern Indian Ocean Islands. This multinational approach provides insight into the intricacies, customs, practices, and life-styles surrounding the bride in various Eastern and Western cultures.


Krishna Sobti’s Views on Literature and the Poetics of Writing

Krishna Sobti’s Views on Literature and the Poetics of Writing

Author: Rosine-Alice Vuille

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2022-10-03

Total Pages: 463

ISBN-13: 3110781549

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How does a writer discuss her creative process and her views on a writer’s role in society? How do her comments on writing relate to her works? The Hindi writer Krishna Sobti (1925-2019) is known primarily as a novelist. However, she also extensively wrote about her views on the creative process, the figure of the writer, historical writing, and the position of writers within the public sphere. This study is the first to examine in detail the relationship between Sobti’s views on poetics as exposed in her non-fictional texts and her own literary practice. The writer’s self-representation is analysed through her use of metaphors to explain her creative process. Sobti’s construction of the figure of the writer is then put in parallel with her idiosyncratic use of language as a representation of the heterogeneous voices of her characters and with her conception of literature as a space where time and memory can be "held." At the same time, by delving into Sobti’s position in the debate around "women’s writing" (especially through the creation of a male double, the failed writer Hashmat), and into her views on literature and politics, this book also reflects on the literary debates of the post-Independence Hindi literary sphere.


Dance

Dance

Author: Eṃ Mukundan

Publisher: Katha

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9788189934002

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Translating Power

Translating Power

Author: Saugata Bhaduri

Publisher: Katha

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9788189934248

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Translation of short stories from Indic langauges.