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Intimate relations : social reform and the late nineteenth-century South Asian novel / Krupa Shandilya.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: FlashPoints (Evanston, Ill.)Publisher: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2017Description: x, 157 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780810134225 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780810134232 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780810134249 (ebook)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 891.4430093552 SHA/I
LOC classification:
  • PK1712 .S49 2017
Contents:
At home in the world : feminist agency in the late-nineteenth century social reform novel -- Desire, death, and the discourse of sati : Bankimchandra Chatterjee's Krishnakanter Uil and Rabindranath Tagore's Chokher Bali -- Erotic worship and the discourse of rights : spiritual feminism in Saratchandra Chatterjee's fiction -- On purdah and poetry : social reform and the status of Urdu poetry in Nazir Ahmad and Hali's fiction -- Poetry, piety and performance : the politics of modesty in M.H. Ruswa's Umrao jaan ada and Junun-e-intezaar -- Towards a feminist modernity : the religious-erotic politics of the modernesque novel.
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Books Books MES KC LIBRARY HISTORY Literature 891.4430093552 SHA/I (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available GL42R2 44052

Includes bibliographical references (page 137-145) and index.

At home in the world : feminist agency in the late-nineteenth century social reform novel -- Desire, death, and the discourse of sati : Bankimchandra Chatterjee's Krishnakanter Uil and Rabindranath Tagore's Chokher Bali -- Erotic worship and the discourse of rights : spiritual feminism in Saratchandra Chatterjee's fiction -- On purdah and poetry : social reform and the status of Urdu poetry in Nazir Ahmad and Hali's fiction -- Poetry, piety and performance : the politics of modesty in M.H. Ruswa's Umrao jaan ada and Junun-e-intezaar -- Towards a feminist modernity : the religious-erotic politics of the modernesque novel.

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