This book constitutes a feminist literary analysis of motherhood as presented in selected Indian women's fictions across a diverse range of geographical, linguistic, class and caste contexts.
This book constitutes a feminist literary analysis of motherhood as presented in selected Indian women's fictions across a diverse range of geographical, linguistic, class and caste contexts.
Indrani Karmakar is an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow based at the Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany and prior to that, she was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Rhodes University, South Africa. Her works have previously appeared in the Journal of Commonwealth Literature and Wasafiri, and she is the co-author of Storying Relationships: Young British Muslims Speak and Write about Sex and Love (2021).
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Introduction: Of Motherhood, Metaphor and Materiality Chapter 1 Reluctant Mothers? : Maternal Subjectivity and Ambivalence Chapter 2 Cast(e)ing Motherhood: Caste, Marginality and Maternal Agency Chapter 3 Mothering Daughters: Vicissitudes of Mother-Daughter Relationships Chapter 4 Motherhood and Diaspora: Remembering and Remaking Home Chapter 5 Maternal Non-mothers: Motherhood Beyond Biology Coda Moving the Maternal: Towards Solidarity
Introduction: Of Motherhood, Metaphor and Materiality
Chapter 1
Reluctant Mothers? : Maternal Subjectivity and Ambivalence
Chapter 2
Cast(e)ing Motherhood: Caste, Marginality and Maternal Agency
Chapter 3
Mothering Daughters: Vicissitudes of Mother-Daughter Relationships
Chapter 4
Motherhood and Diaspora: Remembering and Remaking Home
