| Women Writing in India: 600 B.C. to the Present, V: 600 B.C. to the Early Twentieth Century Contributor(s): Tharu, Susie (Editor), Lalita, K. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1558610278 ISBN-13: 9781558610279 Publisher: Feminist Press OUR PRICE: $30.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1993 Annotation: These ground-breaking collections offer 200 texts from 11 languages, never before available in English or as a collection, along with a new reading of cultural history that draws on contemporary scholarship on women and on India. This extraordinary body of literature and important documentary resource illuminates the lives of Indian women through 2,600 years of change and extends the historical understanding of literature, feminism, and the making of modern India. The biographical, critical, and bibliographical headnotes in both volumes, supported by an introduction which Anita Desai describes as "intellectually rigorous, challenging, and analytical," place the writers and their selections within the context of Indian culture and history. Volume I: 600 B.C. to the Early Twentieth Century includes songs by Buddhist nuns, testimonies of medieval rebel poets and court historians, and the voices of more than 60 other writers of the 18th and 19th centuries. Among the diverse selections are a rare early essay by an untouchable woman; an account by the first feminist historian; and a selection from the first novel written in English by an Indian woman. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Asian - General |
| Dewey: 891.1 |
| LCCN: 90003788 |
| Series: Women Writing in India |
| Physical Information: 1.56" H x 6.01" W x 8.99" (1.86 lbs) 576 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian - Cultural Region - Indian - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: These ground-breaking collections offer 200 texts from eleven languages, never before available in English or as a collection, along with a new reading of cultural history that draws on contemporary scholarship on women and India. This extraordinary body of literature and important documentary resource illuminates the lives of Indian women through 2,600 years of change and extends the historical understanding of literature, feminism, and the making of modern India. The biographical, critical, and bibliographical headnotes in both volumes, supported by an introduction which Anita Desai describes as "intellectually rigorous, challenging, and analytical," place the writers and their selections within the context of Indian culture and history. Volume I: 600 B.C. to the Early Twentieth Century includes songs by Buddhist nuns, testimonies of medieval rebel poets and court historians, and the voices of more than sixty other writers of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries. Among the diverse selections are a rare early essay by an untouchable woman; an account by the first feminist historian; and a selection from the first novel written in English by an Indian woman. |