Krishna Sobti S Views On Literature And The Poetics Of Writing

Author : Rosine-Alice Vuille
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110781519

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Krishna Sobti’s Views on Literature and the Poetics of Writing by Rosine-Alice Vuille Pdf

How does a writer discuss her creative process and her views on a writer’s role in society? How do her comments on writing relate to her works? The Hindi writer Krishna Sobti (1925-2019) is known primarily as a novelist. However, she also extensively wrote about her views on the creative process, the figure of the writer, historical writing, and the position of writers within the public sphere. This study is the first to examine in detail the relationship between Sobti’s views on poetics as exposed in her non-fictional texts and her own literary practice. The writer’s self-representation is analysed through her use of metaphors to explain her creative process. Sobti’s construction of the figure of the writer is then put in parallel with her idiosyncratic use of language as a representation of the heterogeneous voices of her characters and with her conception of literature as a space where time and memory can be "held." At the same time, by delving into Sobti’s position in the debate around "women’s writing" (especially through the creation of a male double, the failed writer Hashmat), and into her views on literature and politics, this book also reflects on the literary debates of the post-Independence Hindi literary sphere.

Author : Rosine-Alice Vuille
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110781540

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Krishna Sobti’s Views on Literature and the Poetics of Writing by Rosine-Alice Vuille Pdf

How does a writer discuss her creative process and her views on a writer’s role in society? How do her comments on writing relate to her works? The Hindi writer Krishna Sobti (1925-2019) is known primarily as a novelist. However, she also extensively wrote about her views on the creative process, the figure of the writer, historical writing, and the position of writers within the public sphere. This study is the first to examine in detail the relationship between Sobti’s views on poetics as exposed in her non-fictional texts and her own literary practice. The writer’s self-representation is analysed through her use of metaphors to explain her creative process. Sobti’s construction of the figure of the writer is then put in parallel with her idiosyncratic use of language as a representation of the heterogeneous voices of her characters and with her conception of literature as a space where time and memory can be "held." At the same time, by delving into Sobti’s position in the debate around "women’s writing" (especially through the creation of a male double, the failed writer Hashmat), and into her views on literature and politics, this book also reflects on the literary debates of the post-Independence Hindi literary sphere.

Author : Rosine-Alice Vuille
Publisher : de Gruyter
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 3110781441

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Krishna Sobti's Views on Literature and the Poetics of Writing by Rosine-Alice Vuille Pdf

The Hindi writer Krishna Sobti (1925-2019) carved out a special place for herself within the post-Partition Hindi literary sphere thanks to her idiosyncratic use of language and her bold choices of topics. Known primarily as a novelist, she is also

Author : Sukrita Paul Kumar,Rekha Sethi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781000452624

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Krishna Sobti by Sukrita Paul Kumar,Rekha Sethi Pdf

This book engages with the life and works of the distinctive Hindi writer Krishna Sobti, known for making bold choices of themes in her writing. Also known for her extraordinary use of the Hindi language, she emerges as an embodiment of a counter archive. While presenting the author in the context of her times, this volume offers critical perspectives to define her position in the canon of modern Indian literature. Alongside important critical essays on her, the inclusion of excerpts from the translations of some major works by the author, such as Zindaginama, Mitro Marjani and Ai Ladki, greatly facilitate an understanding of her worldview and the contexts in which she wrote. Also included in this book are some of her reflections on the creative process that help in unfolding the complexities of her characters and her specific approach to the language of fiction. Writing in the times of significant political and cultural churnings, her fiction includes themes such as the Partition of the country and its aftermath, women and their sexuality, desire and violence, history and memory. Her writing subverted the dominant narratives of the times and de-historicised history. Her own essays and other critical writings demonstrate the way Krishna Sobti’s characters are abundantly polyphonic and seeped in social realities. They encapsulate the cultural milieu of their times and serve as a site of resistance to the dominant archive of power. Her interactions with her fellow Hindi writers such as Nirmal Verma and Krishan Baldev Vaid, as also her letters, her memoirs and the reminiscences of others, further enrich this volume and establish her unique voice. Part of the ‘Writer in Context’ Series, this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of Indian literature, English literature, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, gender studies, translation studies and Partition studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Books
ISBN : UVA:X030281910

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The Book Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Krishna Sobti
Publisher : HarperPerennial
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 935116022X

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The Music of SOLITUDE by Krishna Sobti Pdf

They are solitary-they live all by themselves. They have met at a juncture in their lives where special friendships like theirs are unheard of in a city like Delhi. Aranya and Ishan are neighbours. She is impulsive, anarchic and fiercely feminist while he is gentle, Asensitive, orderly and believes in the institution of family, even though he has no one to call his own. In the course of her thoughts, Aranya moves from one Delhi to another, to finally settle in a trans-Yamuna residential complex, the older Delhis glimmering on the other side of the river. Ishan, on the other hand, is deeply spiritual and draws strength from his Danish guide in the Himalayas. In the autumn of their lives, Aranya and Ishan banter about time, existentialism, changing cities, food, music and people in general. They think aloud about living and dying. Sometimes they speculate on whether what they are doing amounts to biding time. A novel about sharing solitudes and growing old in a city keenly private and aggressively collective at once, Krishna Sobti's The Music of Solitude is a portrait of changing times and the story of a beautiful romance that thrives on companionship.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : India
ISBN : UOM:39015020626357

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Index India by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Books
ISBN : IND:30000092442676

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Indian Review of Books by Anonim Pdf

Author : Marian Arkin,Barbara Shollar
Publisher : New York : Longman
Page : 1334 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002540362

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Longman Anthology of World Literature by Women, 1875-1975 by Marian Arkin,Barbara Shollar Pdf

Author : Kr̥shṇa Sobatī
Publisher : Katha
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Hindi fiction
ISBN : 8187649550

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Tohellwithyou Mitro by Kr̥shṇa Sobatī Pdf

Krishna Sobti's lively, unapologetic portrayal of a married woman who brooks no limits to her sexuality is as compelling, pertinent and provocative today as when it first shook the Hindi literary world in 1966. Katha presents another masterpiece from one of the most spirited writers of our times. Mitro Marjani was not a writer's story ... I was amazed at the surprises Mitro gave me at every turn. Brought up outside the walls of patriarchy ... Mitro is her mother's daughter who can voice her desires and get away with it. She has no inhibitions about talking of things tabooed by tradition. She really impressed me .- Krishna Sobti

Author : Krishna Sobti
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789353054762

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A Gujarat Here, a Gujarat There by Krishna Sobti Pdf

Delhi, 1947. The city surges with Partition refugees. Eager to escape the welter of pain and confusion that surrounds her, young Krishna applies on a whim to a position at a preschool in the princely state of Sirohi, itself on the cusp of transitioning into the republic of India. She is greeted on arrival with condescension for her refugee status, and treated with sexist disdain by Zutshi Sahib, the man charged with hiring for the position. Undaunted, Krishna fights back. But when an opportunity to become governess to the child maharaja Tej Singh Bahadur presents itself-and with it a chance to make Sirohi her new home once and for all-there is no telling how long this idyll will last. Part novel, part memoir, part feminist anthem, A Gujarat Here, A Gujarat There is not only a powerful tale of Partition loss and dislocation but also charts the odyssey of a spirited young woman determined to build a new identity for herself on her own terms.

Author : Krishna Sobti
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789352772865

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Zindaginama by Krishna Sobti Pdf

It is sometime in the first decade of the 20th century. The British Imperialists have been in India for over 150 years. However, life in the small village of Shahpur in undivided Punjab has remained largely unchanged. The menfolk look to the wealthy and worldly-wise Shahji and his benevolent younger brother Kashi for support and advice, while it is Shahji's wife's home and hearth that is the centre of all celebrations for the women. Local disputes, trade, politics, a trickling of news from the Lahore newspaper are all discussed every evening at the Shah's haveli. But as the Ghadar Movement gains momentum elsewhere in Punjab and in Bengal, bringing into focus the excesses of the British, the simple village of Shahpur cannot help looking at itself. The discontent has set in. Krishna Sobti's magnum opus, Zindaginama brilliantly captures the story of India through a village where people of both faiths coexisted peacefully, living off the land.

Author : Usha Bande,Atma Ram
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015061607936

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Woman in Indian Short Stories by Usha Bande,Atma Ram Pdf

This Study Seeks To Ascertain The Emergence Of The `New` Woman In The Marathi, Hindi, Punjabi And Indian-English Short Story By Women Writers Of The Last Fifty Years, Roughly From The Mid-1940S To The End Of 1990S.

Author : Mina Seckin
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781646221608

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The Four Humors by Mina Seckin Pdf

This wry and visceral debut novel follows a young Turkish-American woman who, rather than grieving her father's untimely death, seeks treatment for a stubborn headache and grows obsessed with a centuries-old theory of medicine. "[A] humane and refreshingly astringent novel." —Lauren LeBlanc, The New York Times Book Review Twenty-year-old Sibel thought she had concrete plans for the summer. She would care for her grandmother in Istanbul, visit her father’s grave, and study for the MCAT. Instead, she finds herself watching Turkish soap operas and self-diagnosing her own possible chronic illness with the four humors theory of ancient medicine. Also on Sibel’s mind: her blond American boyfriend who accompanies her to Turkey; her energetic but distraught younger sister; and her devoted grandmother, who, Sibel comes to learn, carries a harrowing secret. Delving into her family’s history, the narrative weaves through periods of political unrest in Turkey, from military coups to the Gezi Park protests. Told with pathos and humor, Sibel’s search for strange and unusual cures is disrupted as she begins to see how she might heal herself through the care of others, including her own family and its long-fractured relationships.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Peace
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111268442

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Gandhi Marg by Anonim Pdf