Download or read book Mythology and Reality in Githa Hariharan s The Thousand Faces of Night written by Kader Aki and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2007-12 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: gut, University of Cologne (Anglistik), course: Myth and History in the Writing of Indian Novelists in English, 12 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: "The Thousand Faces of Night" is not just a womanist novel but it is a definite feminist writing in which myths are revisioned, rewritten, and retold from a female point of view. The focus of the novel is on the inner lifes of women, the 'inner spaces' are reflected in detail. The analysis on hand sets its central focus on the relation between myth or stories and the women in the Novel. It presents how the female point of view differs from the male discourse, especially by contrasting myths form the Mahabharata with stories from the Sanskrit. A brief explanation about Manu is included, as well as a rudimentary interpretation of Gita Hariharan's use of metaphors are included.
Download or read book The Thousand Faces of Night written by Githa Hariharan and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 1992 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner Of The 1993 Commonwealth Writers&Rsquo; Prize For Best First Book What Makes A Dutiful Daughter, Wife, Mother? What Makes A Good Indian Woman? Devi Returns To Madras With An American Degree, Only To Be Sucked In By The Old Order Of Things&Mdash;A Demanding Mother&Rsquo;S Love, A Suitable But Hollow Marriage, An Unsuitable Lover Who Offers A Brief Escape. But The Women Of The Hoary Past Come Back To Claim Devi Through Myth And Story, Music And Memory. They Show Her What It Is To Stay And Endure, What It Is To Break Free And Move On.Sita Has Been The Ideal Daughter-In-Law, Wife And Mother. But Now That She Has Arranged A Marriage For Her Daughter She Has To Come To Terms With An Old Dream Of Her Own. Mayamma Knows How To Survive As The Old Family Retainer, Bending The Way The Wind Blows. But, Through Devi, She Too Can See A Different Life. A Subtle And Tender Tale Of Women'S Lives In India, This Award-Winning Novel Is Structured With The Delicacy And Precision Of A Piece Of Music. Fusing Myth, Tale And The Real Voices Of Different Women, The Thousand Faces Of Night Brings Alive The Underworld Of Indian Women&Rsquo;S Lives. &Lsquo;
Download or read book The Mythic Dimension written by Joseph Campbell and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2007 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These 12 eclectic essays explore the topic for which Campbell was best known: myth and its fascinating context within the human imagination in the arts, literature, and culture, as well as in everyday life.
Download or read book Fugitive Histories written by Githa Hariharan and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2009 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: &Lsquo;Githa Hariharan&Rsquo;S Fiction Is Wonderful&Mdash;Full Of Subtleties And Humour And Tenderness&Rsquo; &Mdash;Michael Ondaatje Mala&Rsquo;S Home In Delhi Is Empty, Save For A Lifetime Of Sketches Left Behind By Her Late Husband Asad And The Memories They Conjure. Sifting Through Them On Restless Afternoons And Sleepless Nights, Mala Summons Ghosts From Her Childhood, Relives The Heady Days Of Love And Optimism When Asad And She Robustly Defied Social Conventions To Build A Life Together&Mdash;And Struggles To Understand How Events Far Removed Could So Easily Snatch Away The Certainties They Had Always Taken For Granted. As Their Story Unfolds, Others Emerge: Of Sara, Mala And Asad&Rsquo;S Daughter, Who, Unable To Commit To A Cause That Will Renew Her Faith In Her Parents&Rsquo; Ideals And Her Own, Embarks On A Search For Purpose That Brings Her From Mumbai To Ahmedabad, The Venue Of Recent Carnage. Of Yasmin, Whom Sara Meets Across A Lately Created &Lsquo;Border&Rsquo;, A Survivor Of Mayhem Secretly Dreaming Of College And The Miraculous Return Of Her Missing Brother, Akbar, As She Navigates Menacing By-Lanes To Reach Her School Safely Every Day. Of Innumerable Other Lives Trapped In Limbo&Mdash;Some Caught In A Mesh Of Memory, Anguish And Hate, Others Seeking Release In Private Dreams And Valiant Hopes. Marked By An Astonishing Clarity Of Observation And Deep Compassion, Fugitive Histories Exposes The Legacy Of Prejudice That, Sometimes Insidiously, Sometimes Perceptibly, Continues To Affect Disparate Lives In Present-Day India. In Prose That Is At Once Elegant, Playful And Startlingly Inventive, Githa Hariharan Portrays With Remarkable Precision The Web Of Human Connections That Binds As Much As It Divides.
Download or read book In Times of Siege written by Githa Hariharan and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2018 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book When Dreams Travel written by Githa Hariharan and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 1998 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: &Lsquo;The Powerless Must Have A Dream Or Two, Dreams That Break Walls, Dreams That Go Through Walls As If They Are Powerless.&Rsquo; A Magical Tour De Force By A Writer At The Height Of Her Powers, When Dreams Travel Weaves Round Scheherazade&Mdash;Or Shahrzad Of The Thousand And One Nights&Mdash;A Vibrant, Inventive Story About That Old Game That&Rsquo;S Never Played Out: The Quest For Love And Power. The Curtain Opens On Four Figures, Two Men And Two Women. There Is The Sultan Who Wants A Virgin Every Night; There Is His Brother, Who Makes An Enemy Of Darkness And Tries To Banish It; And There Are Their Ambitious Brides, The Sisters Shahrzad And Dunyazad, Aspiring To Be Heroines&Mdash;Or Martyrs. Travelling In And Out Of These Lives To Spellbinding Effect Is A Range Of Stories, Dark, Poetic And Witty By Turns, Spanning Medieval To Contemporary Times. With Its Sharp And Lively Blend Of Past And Present, Its Skilful Reworking Of The Historical Tradition, And Its Controlled Use Of Evocative Language, Githa Hariharan&Rsquo;S Multi-Voiced Narrative Assumes The Significance Of Modern Myth.
Download or read book Daughter from a Wishing Tree written by Sudhā Mūrti and published by Puffin. This book was released on 2019-10-25 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know that the Trinity often turned to goddesses to defeat the asuras? Did you know that the first clone in the world was created by a woman? The women in Indian mythology might be fewer in number, but their stories of strength and mystery in the pages of ancient texts and epics are many. They slayed demons and protected their devotees fiercely. From Parvati to Ashokasundari and from Bhamati to Mandodari, this collection features enchanting and fearless women who frequently led wars on behalf of the gods, were the backbone of their families and makers of their own destinies. India's much-loved and bestselling author Sudha Murty takes you on an empowering journey -through the yarns forgotten in time-abounding with remarkable women who will remind you of the strong female influences in your life.
Download or read book The Ghosts Of Vasu Master written by Githa Hariharan and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 1994 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Extraordinarily Moving Tale Of A Small-Town Schoolteacher. The New Novel From The Winner Of The Commonwealth Writers Prize For Best First Novel Vasu Master Has Recently Retired From His Job In A Local School. Away From The Familiar Circumscribed World Of School, Principal And Classroom, He Begins To Relive Incidents From The Past And Discover In His Own Halting But Imaginative Way The Nature Of Teaching, Teacher And Pupil. This Process Of Self-Discovery Is Speeded Up By The Arrival Of Mani, Who Cannot-Or Will Not-Speak. Vasu Master Tells The Reticent Child One Fantastic Story After The Other As He Faces Up To The Biggest Challenge Of His Life: Can He Teach (Or Heal) Mani? Using Fantasy, Fable And A Host Of Wonderfully Imagined Characters-And The Gentle, Humane And Philosophic Voice Of Vasu Master-The Author Creates A Richly Textured And Complex Work That Eloquently Explores The Human Condition And The Underlying Principles Of All Human Action.
Download or read book Gwilan s Harp written by Ursula K. Le Guin and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A River Sutra written by Gita Mehta and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-02-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With imaginative lushness and narrative elan, Mehta provides a novel that combines Indian storytelling with thoroughly modern perceptions into the nature of love--love both carnal and sublime, treacherous and redeeming. "Conveys a world that is spiritual, foreign, and entirely accessible."--Vanity Fair. Reading tour.
Download or read book Women who Dared written by Valjean McLenighan and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of 6 American women (e.g., Margaret Bourke-White and Diana Nyad) who have accomplished much in different fields.
Download or read book The Night Has a Thousand Eyes and Other Poems written by F. W. Bourdillon and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Feminist Challenge written by David Bouchier and published by Schocken. This book was released on 1984 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bodies and Voices written by Anna Rutherford and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2008 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The articles investigate representations in literature, both by the colonizers and colonized. Many deal with the effect the dominant culture had on the self image of native inhabitants. They cover areas on all continents that were colonized by European countries.
Download or read book The Legends of Pensam written by Mamang Dai and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2006 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb
Download or read book The Zigzag Way written by Anita Desai and published by HMH. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young American in Mexico discovers his family’s past—and a present-day danger—in this “elegant, exquisite” novel of suspense (Elle). Eric is a newly minted historian just out of graduate school, plagued by self-doubt over both his past choices and his future options. With no clear direction, he follows his lover, Em, when she travels to the Yucatan for her scientific research, but ends up alone in this foreign place. And so he pursues his own private quest, tracing his family’s history to a Mexican ghost town, where, a hundred years earlier, young Cornish miners—among them Eric’s grandparents—toiled to the death. Now, in place of the Cornish workers, the native Huichol Indians suffer the cruelty of the mines. When he inquires into their lives, Eric provokes the ire of their self-appointed savior, Dona Vera. Known as the “Queen of the Sierra,” Dona Vera is the widow of a mining baron who has dedicated her fortune to preserving the Huichol culture. But her formidable presence belies a dubious past. The zigzag paths of these characters converge on the Day of the Dead, bringing together past and present in a moment of powerful epiphany. Haunting and atmospheric, with splashes of exuberant color and darker violence, The Zigzag Way is “a beautifully rendered combination of history, folklore, and modern fiction” (Entertainment Weekly), from a Booker Prize finalist. “Long before Jhumpa Lahiri . . . long before Monica Ali . . . another novelist was offering us exquisitely detailed portraits of bodies in transit [and] classes in the art of sly and sensuous fiction . . . Anita Desai was a global, migrant writer before such a thing was fashionable.” —Time “Almost unbearably suspenseful.” —The Boston Globe “A hypnotic journey.” —San Jose Mercury News
Download or read book I Have Become The Tide written by Githa Hariharan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where is that land where water flows free? A powerful, beautifully imagined novel from Githa Hariharan asks when the tide will turn to make this dream real. Hundreds of years ago, Chikka, son of a cattle skinner, finds a home in Anandagrama, among people who believe everyone is equal; people whose prayer is inseparable from song and work, the river and the land, friendship and love. Chikka becomes Chikkiah the washerman who sings by his beloved river. But the Anandagrama movement against caste is torn apart, and its men and women slaughtered or forced to flee. In the present day, Professor Krishna makes a discovery. The saint-singer Kannadeva is none other than the son of Chikkiah. The poets and fighters of Anandagrama have been forgotten; Kannadeva has been whitewashed into a casteless ‘Hindu saint’. Professor Krishna reconstructs many lives of resistance from his findings in a palm-leaf manuscript. But will the bigots, armed with bullets, bombs and hit-lists, let scholars and poets do what they must? Three Dalit students—Asha, Ravi and Satya—dream of a future that will let them and their families live with dignity, just like everyone else. From Chikkiah’s story to theirs, a few things may have changed, but too much has remained the same. Three distinctive narratives intertwine past and present in compelling ways to raise an urgent voice against the cruelties of caste, and the destructive forces that crush dissent. But they also celebrate the joy of resistance, the redemptive beauty of words, and the courage to be found in friendship and love. I Have Become the Tide is deeply political, but it never loses sight of humour, tenderness—or the human spirit.
