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This compendium of fourteen papers delves into what constitutes Indianness in the postcolonial context by looking into the text and subtext of Shakespeare’s plays adapted in visual culture, translation, stage performance and cinema.
Offering an important intervention in the ongoing exploration in social and cultural history, it explores how Shakespeare has impacted the emergence of regional identities around questions of language and linguistic empowerment ...
Signifying the Self-Women and Literature is a collection of essays that explores the multifarious expressions of feminism in India. It is divided into five sections: women’s autobiography, writing by Dalit women of Bengal, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh; regional and global issues in women’s writing; same-sex love in women’s literature & film and the male gaze. Dealing with texts as disparate as Tagore’s early twentieth century novel Choker ...