02826nam 2200625Ia 450 991015522350332120200520144314.0978129931322412993132219781554582815155458281410.51644/9781554582815(CKB)2430000000002811(EBL)685698(OCoLC)311308115(SSID)ssj0000382572(PQKBManifestationID)11271790(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000382572(PQKBWorkID)10393716(PQKB)10242807(CaBNvSL)slc00222050(CaPaEBR)424201(MiAaPQ)EBC3261126(MdBmJHUP)muse14255(MiAaPQ)EBC685698(DE-B1597)667545(DE-B1597)9781554582815(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/zswctw(Perlego)1706429(EXLCZ)99243000000000281120080307d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe agent in the margin Nayantara Sahgal's Gandhian fiction /Clara A.B. Joseph1st ed.Waterloo, Ont. Wilfrid Laurier University Pressc20081 online resource (218 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9781554580439 1554580439 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 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 postst823.914Joseph Clara A. B953864MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910155223503321The Agent in the Margin2156875UNINA