Feminizing Political Discourse: Women & Novel in India 1857-1905
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Edition
1st. Ed.
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ISBN
817033431X
Length
235p., 23cm.
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"Feminizing Political Discourse: Women and the Novel in India 1857-1905 views literature as a cultural construct which reflects the socio-political concerns of the age. It questions the assumption that the novel is of western origin, and that its development in India is more a matter of imitation than of evolution. The work focuses on the centrality of the women characters and connects it with the imperial-colonial encounter which placed Indian culture ...