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Autore: | Joseph Clara A. B |
Titolo: | The Agent in the Margin [[electronic resource] ] : Nayantara Sahgal’s Gandhian Fiction / / Clara A.B. Joseph |
Pubblicazione: | Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (218 p.) |
Disciplina: | 823.914 |
Soggetto topico: | LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Indic |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | The Agent in the Margin |
ISBN: | 1-299-31322-1 |
1-55458-281-4 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910155223503321 |
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