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The Indian family in transition : reading literary and cultural texts / edited by Sanjukta Dasgupta and Malashri Lal.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Los Angeles ; London ; New Delhi : Sage, 2007.Description: 380 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780761935681 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.850954 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ670 .I525 2007
Contents:
As the husband, so the wife : old patriarchy, new patriarchy and misogyny in one late nineenth-century domestic science manual / Judith E. Walsh -- Women and agency : vignettes from Indian families / Mukul Mukherjee -- Modern families and independent living : reflections on contemporary aging / Sarah Lamb -- Women and the Naga family today : communitarianism in practice / Bonita Aleaz -- Society, family and the self in Indian fiction / Jayita Sengupta -- Imagined family : pangs of transition / Esha Dey -- The politics of home and food in Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies / Irma Maini -- Representation of the family in Marathi autobiography written by Dalit women / Pushpa Bhave -- Real and imagined Gujarati families : shifting positionalities of gender in contemporary Gujarati women's writings / Sutapa Chaudhuri -- Hypocrisy and hollowness in the Indian joint family system : a study of Mahesh Dattani's plays / Arpa Ghosh -- Reflections of family and women in Telugu literature : a look at women's fiction / N. Venugopal Rao -- Globalization and diasporic family dynamics : reconciling the old and the new / Mary Mathew -- Food, family, widowhood in Ashapurna Devi's short fiction / Naina Dey -- The self and the family in Telugu women's poetry / M. Sridhar and Alladi Uma -- The family in flux : the decimated family in Rituparno Ghosh's films / Shoma A. Chatterji -- The "reel" Indian family : reflections from celluloid / Meghna Gulzar -- Hunting for fish : a poem / Meena Alexander -- The family : as I saw it, as I see it / Vidya Bal -- Thoughts on home / Nonda Chatterjee -- Looking back / Shashi Deshpande -- Small-scale reflections on an ancestral home / Makarand Paranjape -- Indian families in the world : forty years in Manitoba / Uma Parameswaran -- A dialog with Amartya Sen / Sanjukta Dasgupta and Malashri Lal.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

As the husband, so the wife : old patriarchy, new patriarchy and misogyny in one late nineenth-century domestic science manual / Judith E. Walsh -- Women and agency : vignettes from Indian families / Mukul Mukherjee -- Modern families and independent living : reflections on contemporary aging / Sarah Lamb -- Women and the Naga family today : communitarianism in practice / Bonita Aleaz -- Society, family and the self in Indian fiction / Jayita Sengupta -- Imagined family : pangs of transition / Esha Dey -- The politics of home and food in Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies / Irma Maini -- Representation of the family in Marathi autobiography written by Dalit women / Pushpa Bhave -- Real and imagined Gujarati families : shifting positionalities of gender in contemporary Gujarati women's writings / Sutapa Chaudhuri -- Hypocrisy and hollowness in the Indian joint family system : a study of Mahesh Dattani's plays / Arpa Ghosh -- Reflections of family and women in Telugu literature : a look at women's fiction / N. Venugopal Rao -- Globalization and diasporic family dynamics : reconciling the old and the new / Mary Mathew -- Food, family, widowhood in Ashapurna Devi's short fiction / Naina Dey -- The self and the family in Telugu women's poetry / M. Sridhar and Alladi Uma -- The family in flux : the decimated family in Rituparno Ghosh's films / Shoma A. Chatterji -- The "reel" Indian family : reflections from celluloid / Meghna Gulzar -- Hunting for fish : a poem / Meena Alexander -- The family : as I saw it, as I see it / Vidya Bal -- Thoughts on home / Nonda Chatterjee -- Looking back / Shashi Deshpande -- Small-scale reflections on an ancestral home / Makarand Paranjape -- Indian families in the world : forty years in Manitoba / Uma Parameswaran -- A dialog with Amartya Sen / Sanjukta Dasgupta and Malashri Lal.

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