Gender and Narrative

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Gender and Narrative is a collection of twenty-two essays which sets out to explore the limits of narrative. No longer identified only with prose narration, or with ‘telling’, narrative today has infilterated other genres in a marked way. Moving beyond plot and story, it has come to represent a complex web of meaning produced through multiple strategies. Narrative today has not only a text, but a sub-text and a hypertext as well. In the age of computers, the selectively and control of the reader allow him to appropriate the authorial position. Where then does the narrator locate himself? Time, space, structure and gender are only some of the categories which define narrative. Privileging gender amongst these, the contributors have explored poetry and drama, short stories and fables written both by men and women, diasporic and stay-at-home, traditional and radical and have unfolded their meaning in myriad different ways. The subjects range from theoretical underpinnings to studies of individual texts, from writers of the 1930s to the present day contemporary writers. The work presents an interesting and insightful dialogue on gender and narrative.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jasbir Jain

Jasbir Jain, writer and critic, Emeritus Fellow, university of Rajasthan, has worked extensively on the Indian novel. Amongst her recent publications are Women in Patriarchy and gendered realities, Human Spaces: The present work is third in a series of writings on the Indian novel and covers the post-independence period. Currently, she is working on the indigenous roots of feminism.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Supriya Agarwal

Supriya Agarwal is Head, Department of English, Khandelwal P.G. Girls College, Jaipur. Her Doctoral work is on the Orphan Woman Character of the Victorian Novel. She has completed UGC research projects on American and Canadian writers. Co-editor of Gender and Narrative and Writer of the Caribbean Diaspora, she has several published articles, and is currently working on South Asian Writers.

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Title
Gender and Narrative
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Edition
1st. Ed.
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ISBN
8170337062
Length
xxiv+264p.
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