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UNINA9910155223503321 |
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Autore |
Joseph Clara A. B |
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The agent in the margin : Nayantara Sahgal's Gandhian fiction / / Clara A.B. Joseph |
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Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2008 |
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9781299313224 |
1299313221 |
9781554582815 |
1554582814 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (218 p.) |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Preface; Introduction: Agency in the Margins: Althusser, Gandhi, Sahgal; Chapter One: The Interpellated "I": Gandhian Ideology and the Autobiographical Genre; Chapter Two: The Thinking Subject: Virginity and Swaraj; Chapter Three: The Special Place of Literature: Mahasati, Satyagrahi; Chapter Four: Overdetermination and Truth; Chapter Five: The Resisting Subject: Dignity of Lesser Breeds; Conclusion: Representing the Human Person; Works Cited; Index |
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The Agent in the Margin: Nayantara Sahgal's Gandhian Fiction is a comprehensive study of the literary works of Nayantara Sahgal, daughter of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit-the first woman president of the United Nations General Assembly-and niece of Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister. Clara A.B. Joseph introduces Mahatma Gandhi's political and philosophical to literary analysis and utilizes non-structuralist aspects of Louis Althusser's theories of ideology to trace how characters marginalized by gender, class, race, and language in Sahgal's work assume agency, challenging postst |
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