Women writing violence: the novel and radical feminist imaginaries

'Women Writing Violence' engages with select contemporary novels in which women characters resist violence and redefine notions of community by imagining bonds with the exiled and the disempowered. The author interweaves the literary landscapes of African-American writer Toni Morrison with...

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Main Author: Subramanian, Shreerekha (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
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Online Access:Volltext
Summary:'Women Writing Violence' engages with select contemporary novels in which women characters resist violence and redefine notions of community by imagining bonds with the exiled and the disempowered. The author interweaves the literary landscapes of African-American writer Toni Morrison with the oeuvre of South Asian writers Mridula Garg, Tahmina Durrani, Amrita Pritam Bapsi Sidhwa and Mahasweta Devi. This results in the opening of a new gateway into the thinking about violence and survival through a feminist, transnational lens
Physical Description:xxxix, 269 p.
ISBN:9788132114093

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