Widows Wives And Other Heroines

Author : Premacanda
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Women
ISBN : UCAL:B4564258

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Widows, Wives, and Other Heroines by Premacanda Pdf

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.

Author : Premacanda
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015042817687

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Widows, Wives, and Other Heroines by Premacanda Pdf

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.

Author : Visalakshi Menon
Publisher : Har-Anand Publications
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : India
ISBN : 8124109397

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Indian Women and Nationalism, the U.P. Story by Visalakshi Menon Pdf

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.

Author : M. Asaduddin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317205715

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Premchand in World Languages by M. Asaduddin Pdf

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.

Author : Antoinette Burton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195349344

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Dwelling in the Archive by Antoinette Burton Pdf

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.

Author : I. Vi Rāmakr̥ṣṇan
Publisher : Sahitya Akademi
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8126010916

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Indian Short Stories,1900-2000 by I. Vi Rāmakr̥ṣṇan Pdf

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.

Author : SHALU & DR JASIMUDDIN
Publisher : Markazi Pulications
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789391105617

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PREMCHAND AND THE ARAB WORLD by SHALU & DR JASIMUDDIN Pdf

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.

Author : F. Scott Spencer
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-19
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9780802867629

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Salty Wives, Spirited Mothers, and Savvy Widows by F. Scott Spencer Pdf

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.

Author : Joanne Natale Spigonardo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798620700295

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White Widow by Joanne Natale Spigonardo Pdf

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.

Author : Nita Verma Prasad
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Inheritance and succession
ISBN : UCAL:C3507359

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Defensive Widows, Litigious Widows, Imagined Widows by Nita Verma Prasad Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Indic literature
ISBN : NWU:35556037057460

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Indian Literature by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lynda A. Hall
Publisher : Springer
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319507361

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Women and ‘Value’ in Jane Austen’s Novels by Lynda A. Hall Pdf

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.

Author : Melody Ermachild Chavis
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429971904

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Meena, Heroine of Afghanistan by Melody Ermachild Chavis Pdf

Meena founded the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan in 1977 as a twenty-year-old Kabul University student. She was assassinated in 1987 at age thirty, and lives on in the hearts of all progressive Muslim women. Her voice, speaking for freedom, has never been silenced. The compelling story of Meena's struggle for democracy and women's rights in Afghanistan will inspire young women the world over. Meena, Heroine of Afghanistan is a portrait of a courageous mother, poet and leader who symbolizes an entire movement of women that can influence the fate of nations. It is also a riveting account of a singular political career whose legacy has been inherited by RAWA, the women who hold the keys to a peaceful future for Afghanistan. RAWA has authorized this first-ever biography of their martyred founder.

Author : Richard Cobbold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Army spouses
ISBN : NLS:V000559836

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Mary Anne Wellington, the Soldier's Daughter, Wife and Widow by Richard Cobbold Pdf

Author : Richard COBBOLD
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018607720

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Mary Anne Wellington, the Soldier's Daughter, Wife and Widow. With plates by Richard COBBOLD Pdf