South Asian Women’s Narratives

Literatures of Their Own

Somjeeta Pandey, Bidhu Chand Murmu (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

166 Seiten

2023 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5275-1529-1 (ISBN)

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This collection on women’s narratives includes articles exploring the works of women authors who were either born in South Asia or identified as being from that region. It discusses themes of gender, identity politics, diaspora, trauma, and the new ‘self’ of women.The volume addresses a great range of creative output by South Asian women authors and examines how their writings critically engage with the social, cultural, and political issues of their times, while also simultaneously exploring the themes of social discrimination, empowerment, and economic exploitation.

Somjeeta Pandey is an assistant professor of English at Gobardanga Hindu College, West Bengal, India. She is also a doctoral fellow at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. Her scholarly essays have been published in various journals such as the IIS Journal of Arts, Rupkatha Journal On Interdisciplinary Studies In Humanities, Journal of International Women’s Studies, Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics and others. She has also co-edited a book titled Reading Contemporary South Asian Literature: A Postcolonial-Ecocritical Approach (2022). Her research interests are rooted in crime fiction studies, feminist literary studies, South-Asian literature, Indian popular literature and ecocritical studies.Bidhu Chand Murmu is an assistant professor of English at Narendrapur Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Kolkata, India. He is also a PhD scholar at the Department of English, Presidency University, India.

Erscheinungsdatum	03.08.2023
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-5275-1529-X / 152751529X
ISBN-13	978-1-5275-1529-1 / 9781527515291
Zustand	Neuware