Dipannita Datta

Ashapurna Devi and Feminist Consciousness in Bengal

A Bio-Critical Reading

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Produktbeschreibung

Ashapurna Devi (1909-1995), one of the foremost Indian women writers, wrote more than 240 novels, over 2,000 stories, and 62 books for children, along with many other unpublished essays and letters. Exploring Ashapurna's correspondence, essays, and interviews, this book opens new dimensions to our understanding of the mind and art of one of the finest writers of our time.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 145mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9780198099994
• ISBN-10: 0198099991
• Artikelnr.: 42998188

Autorenporträt

Dipannita Datta is Lecturer, Post-Graduate English, Centre for Studies in Book Publishing, University of Calcutta.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
A Critical Overview
Silence and Its Contours
I. Ashapurna Devi: Her Life, Private and Public (1909-1995)
II. Resisting Silence: Ashapurna Challenging Hegemony?
The Voices of Invisibility
I. Essays by Ashapurna Devi
Prelude to Ashapurna's Essays
Society and the Role of Women
Present Education System and Women's Self-sufficiency
Girls of Kolkata-Then and Now
Laws Are Not the Sole Answer to Problems
Women in the Service of Humanity
II. Letters from and to Ashapurna Devi
The Other Side of Love
Conversations with Ashapurna Devi
Subhadra Urmila Majumdar
Partha Chatterjee
Chitra Deb
Jhara Basu
Enakshi Chattyopadhyay
Annexures
A Brief Chronological Biography of Ashapurna Devi
From Ashapurna's Diary
List of Translated Works of Ashapurna Devi in English
Index
About the Author