The writers considered here include G.V. Desani, Shashi Deshpande, Vikram Chandra, Amitav Ghosh, Kiran Nagarkar, Shobha Dé, Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai and Mulk Raj Anand and some of the themes that have been explored are: queer autofiction, marriage, sexual violence, gender-power hierarchy, discontents of masculinity, sexual politics, masculinity vs. femininity, inferiority and cultural determinism. It is hoped that this book will significantly contribute to the discussion in India of masculinity as an academic subject and in the process prove useful to literary scholars as well as social scientists.
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Letizia Alterno is associated with the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Manchester, UK, as a researcher and learning facilitator. She is the author of the acclaimed book Raja Rao: An Introduction. She had been the director of Raja Raos official website (www.rajarao.com) for a number of years. She currently maintains a website on Raja Rao (http://rajarao.free.fr) which includes an online bibliography on Rao for the benefit of scholars and students around the world. Her contribution to the Raja Rao scholarship also includes the translation of The Cat and Shakespeare into Italian.
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Preface; 1. A Reading of G.V. Desani's All About H. Hatterr as Queer Autofiction Geetha Ganapathy-Dor ; 2. Marriage, Sexual Violence and Indian Masculinity: A Study of Shashi Deshpande's The Dark Holds No Terrors and Anita Nair's Mistress Aparna Sundaram; 3. Beyond the Phallic Axis in Vikram Chandra's Sacred Games Adalinda Gasparini; 4. Reconsidering Gender-Power Hierarchy in a Post/Colonial Society: Masculinities in Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide Susmita Roye; 5. Kiran Nagarkar and the Discontents of Masculinity Aysha Viswamohan; 6. Mapping Masculinities in Mumbai: A Reading of Shobha D's Fiction Tripti Karekatti; 7. Tridib's Gastric : The Contradictory Sexual Politics of The Shadow Lines Stephen da Silva; 8. Masculinity vs. Femininity: Perpetuation and Transgression in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things Fewzia Bedjaoui; 9. The Inheritance of Loss: Mapping Postcolonial Indian Masculinities Purnendu Chatterjee; 10. Reciprocal Relationship between Masculinity and Femininity in Thi.Ja.'s Mogamul and Mulk Raj Anand's Gauri N. Chandra; 11. Inferiority, Individual Psychology and Cultural Determinism: An Indian Complex in Ra.Vi.Sastri's A Man of No Consequence Rajeshwar Mittapalli; Selected Bibliography; Contributors Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9788126910984