Intimate Class Acts: Friendship and Desire in Indian and Pakistani Women’s Fiction
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Edition
1st. ed.
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ISBN
0199466742, 9780199466740
Length
xxx+191p., 23cm.
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The economically privileged Lenny is able to taste the forbidden delights of the adult world because of her ayah. The romantic relationship between Sai, an upper-class Gujarati girl and Gyan, a lower-middle-class Nepali boy, crosses both class and ethnic boundaries. The marriage between Ram, an aristocratic Hindu, and Rose, a working-class Englishwoman, transgresses racial and class lines while also reinforcing patriarchal hierarchies. These relationships in ...
