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The Indian family in transition : reading literary and cultural texts

Title
The Indian family in transition : reading literary and cultural texts / editors, Sanjukta Dasgupta, Malashri Lal.
Publication
New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2007.

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Additional Authors
  • Dasgupta, Sanjukta.
  • Lal, Malashri.
Description
380 pages; 22 cm
Subject
  • Families > India
  • Families in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
ISBN
  • 9780761935681 (hard back)
  • 0761935681 (hard back)
LCCN
  • 2007036393
  • 40014890410
OCLC
  • 171151200
  • ocn171151200
  • SCSB-5381937
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries