Mothering India - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mothering India write by Susmita Roye. This book was released on 2020-08-14. Mothering India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Indian writing in English (IWE) is now a widely recognized and awarded genre, boasting of world renowned authors in its ranks. The ‘fathers’ of IWE, Mulk Raj Anand, R.K. Narayan, and Raja Rao, have now been canonized and their works widely studied. Yet, very little scholarly attention has been paid to the pioneering literary contributions of Indian women to analyse their effect on the cultural history of their times. Mothering India addresses this lack and concentrates on early Indian women’s fiction written between 1890 and 1947. It not only evaluates the influence of women authors on the rise of IWE, but also explores how they reassessed and challenged stereotypes about womanhood in India, adding their voice to the larger debate about social reform legislations on women’s rights. Moreover, in choosing to write in the colonizer’s language, they seized the attention of a much wider international readership. In wielding their pens, these trendsetting women stepped into the literary landscape as ‘speaking subjects’, refusing the passivity of being ‘spoken-of objects’, and thereby ‘mothering’ India by redefining her image.
Mothering a Muslim
Mothering a Muslim - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mothering a Muslim write by Nazia Erum. This book was released on 2017. Mothering a Muslim available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What does it mean to be a middle-class Muslim kid in India today? Talking to over a hundred children and their parents across twelve cities, Nazia Erum uncovers stories of religious segregation in classrooms and rampant bullying of Muslim children in many of the countryÕs top schools.
Motherhood in India
Motherhood in India - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Motherhood in India write by Maithreyi Krishnaraj. This book was released on 2012-04-27. Motherhood in India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents an overview of the varied experiences and representations of motherhood in India from ancient to modern times. The thrust of the arguments made by the various contributors is that the centrality of motherhood as an ideology in a woman’s life is manufactured. This is demonstrated by analysing various institutional structures of society – language, religion, media, law and technology. The articles in this book are chronologically arranged, tracing the different stages that motherhood as a concept has traversed in India – from goddess worship to nationalism, to being a vehicle of reproduction of the sexual division of labour and the inheritance of property via the male-line. Underlying these stages are the dialectics between them that have been facilitated by agents such as the state – the ultimate controller of a woman’s reproductive powers. The feminist critique of ‘essentialising’ the role of a woman has been employed to deconstruct and humanise the experiences and lives of mothers. This anthology therefore attempts to initiate a meaningful and ‘sensitive’ engagement with issues pertaining to a woman’s autonomy over her body and her role also as a mother.
Reading Mary Alongside Indian Surrogate Mothers
Reading Mary Alongside Indian Surrogate Mothers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reading Mary Alongside Indian Surrogate Mothers write by Sharon Jacob. This book was released on 2015-08-18. Reading Mary Alongside Indian Surrogate Mothers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book attempts to read the character of Mary in the infancy narratives of Luke and Matthew alongside the lives of experiences of the Indian surrogate mother living a postcolonial India. Reading Mary through these lenses helps us see this mother and her actions in a more ambivalent light, as a mother whose love is both violent and altruistic.
Narrative Performances of Mothering in South Asian Diasporic Fiction
Narrative Performances of Mothering in South Asian Diasporic Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Narrative Performances of Mothering in South Asian Diasporic Fiction write by Sarah Knor. This book was released on 2022-12-30. Narrative Performances of Mothering in South Asian Diasporic Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examining a range of South Asian Anglophone diasporic fiction and poetry, this monograph opens a new dialogue between diaspora studies and gender studies. It shows how discourses of diaspora benefit from re-examining their own critical relation to concepts of the maternal and the motherland. Rather than considering maternity as a fixed or naturally given category, it challenges essentialist conceptions and explores mothering as a performative practice which actively produces discursive meaning. This innovative approach also involves an investigation of central metaphors in nationalist and diasporic rhetorics, bringing critical attention to the strategies they employ and the unique aesthetic forms they produce.
