Download or read book Widows Wives and Other Heroines written by Premacanda and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a great many of his stories Premchand assigns the heroic role to women. This collection brings together several of these, many of them previously untranslated, with an introduction which outlines Premchand's life and works. For Premchand women were the apostles of common sense, opposed to the dead weight of caste and religious traditions that had outlived their usefulness. While Premchand never tires of dramatizing the plight of defenceless women, exploited and even terrorized by society, refreshingly, not all his heroines remain victims. And although the main focus in these stories is the position of women in Indian society, other social questions - religious intolerance, nationalism, political corruption, poverty - often come to the fore.
Download or read book Indian Women and Nationalism the U P Story written by Visalakshi Menon and published by Har-Anand Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Traces The Engagement Of Women With Nationalism In A Relatively Lesser Known Region The United Provinces Or Uttar Pradesh As It Is Known Today.
Download or read book Dwelling in the Archive written by Antoinette Burton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-30 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dwelling in the Archives uses the writing of three 20th century Indian women to interrogate the status of the traditional archive, reading their memoirs, fictions, and histories as counter-narratives of colonial modernity. Janaki Majumdar was the daughter of the first president of the Indian National Congress. Her unpublished "Family History" (1935) stages the story of her parents' transnational marriage as a series of homes the family inhabited in Britain and India -- thereby providing a heretofore unavailable narrative of the domestic face of 19th century Indian nationalism. Cornelia Sorabji was one of the first Indian women to qualify for the bar. Her memoirs (1934 and 1936) demonstrate her determination to rescue the zenana (women's quarters) and purdahashin (secluded women) from the recesses of the orthodox home in order to counter the emancipationist claims of Gandhian nationalism. Last but not least, Attia Hosain's 1961 novel, "Sunlight on Broken Column" represents the violence and trauma of partition through the biography of a young heroine called Laila and her family home. Taken together, their writings raise questions about what counts as an archive, offering us new insights into the relationship of women to memory and history, gender to fact and fiction, and feminism to nationalism and postcolonialism.
Download or read book Premchand in World Languages written by M. Asaduddin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the reception of Premchand’s works and his influence in the perception of India among Western cultures, especially Russian, German, French, Spanish and English. The essays in the collection also take a critical look at multiple translations of the same work (and examine how each new translation expands the work’s textuality and annexes new readership for the author) as well as representations of celluloid adaptations of Premchand’s works. An important intervention in the field of translation studies, this book will interest scholars and researchers of comparative literature, cultural studies and film studies.
Download or read book Indian Short Stories 1900 2000 written by I. Vi Rāmakr̥ṣṇan and published by Sahitya Akademi. This book was released on 2005 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Forty Three Stories From Twenty One Languages Anthologised Here Reflect The Diversity And Complexity Of Life Lived In India. From The Violence And Mass Hysteria Of The Partition To The Supressed Rage And The Gnawing Self-Pity Of Individuals Trapped In Broken HomesýThese Stories Capture The Outer And The Inner Lives Of Indian Society. The Sacred And The Profane, The Elite And Subaltern Meet In Many-Layered Narratives In These Stories, Providing Us Metaphors To Visualize Ourselves. These Stories Map An Eventful Century During Which Our Country Emerged Into A Nation. The Images Gathered Here From The Haunted Interiors Of The Twentieth Century Are Both Disquieting And Illuminating.
Download or read book PREMCHAND AND THE ARAB WORLD written by SHALU & DR JASIMUDDIN and published by Markazi Pulications. This book was released on 2022-10-08 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book Premchand and The Arab World is an attempt that states that Munshi Premchand’s literal work holds an exclusive position in Indian literature as well as in world literature. Even eighty-six years of his death, the discussions and research on Premchand and his achievements through his literary work are not only in the department of Hindi, Urdu, English, and Arabic of Indian Universities but also in several universities of the Arab World. We have tried to ensure that the cultural, political, and social imports of his work are not neglected. We have attempted to bring out its cultural and moral significance. The primary stress in the rest of the study is on a close analysis of the individual short stories and novels, respecting their integrity and autonomy as works of art owing to space limitations.
Download or read book Salty Wives Spirited Mothers and Savvy Widows written by F. Scott Spencer and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-19 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging feminist hermeneutics and philosophy in addition to more traditional methods of biblical study, Salty Wives, Spirited Mothers, and Savvy Widows demonstrates and celebrates the remarkable capability and ingenuity of several women in the Gospel of Luke. While recent studies have exposed women's limited opportunities for ministry in Luke, Scott Spencer pulls the pendulum back from a negative feminist-critical pole toward a more constructive center. Granting that Luke sends somewhat "mixed messages" about women's work and status as Jesus' disciples, Spencer analyzes such women as Mary, Elizabeth, Joanna, Martha and Mary, and the infamous yet intriguing wife of Lot -- whom Jesus exhorts his followers to "remember" -- as well as the unrelentingly persistent women characters in Jesus' parables.
Download or read book White Widow written by Joanne Natale Spigonardo and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 20th Century there was a large migration of Southern Italian men to the United States, with most of them finding homes in the Northeastern regions of the US. With the unification of Italy, Southern Italians had a sense of increased mobility but few opportunities for work remained. That was still the status quo. Many of the men left wives and children behind to find work in the States. These women were left to fend for themselves with only the occasional letter and money from their husbands. The husbands were gone for decades or they never returned. The term White Widow can refer to these women as well as others that were not recognized as married by local governments even though they were married in church. Shame, poverty, fear and abandonment were part of their lives. They and their children had to work hard to survive. White Widows were independent and regardless of their circumstances they overcame obstacles and became true heroines of the era.
Download or read book Three Out of Four Wives written by Alfred Allan Lewis and published by New York : Macmillan. This book was released on 1975 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Women and Martyrdom in Stalinist War Cinema written by Mozhgan Samadi and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2024-04-03 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The key question asked in this book is, how did Stalinist war cinema present Soviet women's resistance against the Nazi forces during World War II? This book challenges those scholarly works which support the idea of the compatibility of femininity and combat under Stalinism. Despite the Soviet regime’s claim of being opposed to any religious heritage, this book reveals how Stalinist cinema drew on Russian religious tradition and culture in the creation of cinematic representations of Soviet women during WWII. Further, the book shows how the adoption of Russian cultural and religious heritage in Soviet war cinema served Stalinist collective identity-construction policies and state-citizen relations. In so doing, this study contributes to a range of fields within Russian and Soviet studies, including gender studies, cinema studies, Soviet modernity, and the study of identity-construction and state-nation relations. Whilst this book is aimed at researchers and academics, it provides a supplementary source for undergraduate and postgraduate students of Soviet/Russian studies.
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Download or read book Maids Wives and Widows written by Rose Falls Bres and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Download or read book Chaucer s Legendary Good Women written by Florence Percival and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-11-19 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive account of Chaucer's Legend of Good Women.
Download or read book Women and Value in Jane Austen s Novels written by Lynda A. Hall and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-22 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane Austen’s minor female characters expose the economic and social realties of British women in the long eighteenth century and reflect the conflict between intrinsic and expressed value within the evolving marketplace, where fluctuations and fictions inherent in the economic and moral value structures are exposed. Just as the newly-minted paper money was struggling to express its value, so do Austen’s minor female characters struggle to assert their intrinsic value within a marketplace that expresses their worth as bearers of dowries. Austen’s minor female characters expose the plight of women who settle for transactional marriages, become speculators and predators, or become superfluous women who have left the marriage market and battle for personal significance and existence. These characters illustrate the ambiguity of value within the marriage market economy, exposing women’s limited choices. This book employs a socio-historical framework, considering the rise of a competitive consumer economy juxtaposed with affective individualism.
Download or read book Defensive Widows Litigious Widows Imagined Widows written by Nita Verma Prasad and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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