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Growing Up as a Woman Writer

 
Jasbir Jain (Author)
Synopsis The present volume brings to the reader the works of women writers in India across languages, regions, religions, socioeconomic structures, caste hierarchies and genres. In its wide-ranging presentation of creative writing, it also works across generations. A product of the proceedings of two seminars on women writers orgainised by the Sahitya Akademi, the volume brings together debates on definition of women’s writing and feminism, personal narratives and recollection, poetry and short stories that reflect different hues of life. The insights the writers provide convey the Indian reality with all its immediacy and in this lies the strength of these writings. Writing, as it moves from the oral to the written text, simultaneously represents a sense of freedom, a discovery of the self and reaching out to the other. The critical essays go on to interrogate literary canons, modes of representation, aesthetics, feminist positions and the question of readership. Ranging from the personal to the political, from the lyrical to the hardcore intellectual voice, the volume conveys the vibrancy of the writing of women in India today. Under the cover, we have here, the making of a new literary tradition.
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About the author

Jasbir Jain

Jasbir Jain, writer and critic, Emeritus Fellow, university of Rajasthan, has worked extensively on the Indian novel. Amongst her recent publications are Women in Patriarchy and gendered realities, Human Spaces: The present work is third in a series of writings on the Indian novel and covers the post-independence period. Currently, she is working on the indigenous roots of feminism.

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Bibliographic information

Title Growing Up as a Woman Writer
Author Jasbir Jain
Format Hardcover
Date published: 03.08.2007
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher Sahitya Akademy
Language: English
isbn 9788126025473
length 528p.