Understanding Women's Experiences of Displacement: Literature, Culture and Society in South Asia

ISBN-13: 9780367493196 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 18 str.

Nabanita SenGupta; Suranjana Choudhury

Opis

The South Asian region has been especially prone to mass displacement and relocations owing to its varied geographical settings as well as socio-political factors. This book examines the women’s perspective in issues related to displacement, loss, conflict and rehabilitation.

Spis treści

Part I: Critical Essays 1. Interconnected Lives, Disrupted Realities: Revisiting Gendered Narratives from India’s Northeastern Partition, 1947 2. ‘A Language Without Words’: Remapping Women’s Displacements Through Transnationalism in Chandani Lokugé’s Fiction 3. Displacement, Family Sagas and a Feminist Gaze: Retelling Women’s Sexual History in Love Marriage and Bodies in Motion 4. Prison as a Paradigm of Displacement: Narratives of Female Prisoners in 1970s West Bengal 5. Negotiating the Trauma of Displacement in Bharati Mukherjee’s Wife and Jasmine 6. Post-Riot Narratives: Locating the Voices of "Displaced" Women? 7. Nation, Female Body and Sexuality: HansdaShekhar’s "November Is the Month of Migration" 8. When Home is a Glass Coffin: Women and Displacement in Some Indian Fairy Tales 9. Women, Violence, Displacement: Delineating the Abduction Motif in South Asian Partition Stories 10. Singing in Exile: Relocating the Notion of Displacement in Usha Kishore’s Immigrant 11. The Post-Independence Rehabilitation Displacement: The Birangona Case in Bangladesh 12. "Please, dear Zari, tell my story!": Reading Women’s Displacement in Zarghuna Kargar’s Dear Zari Part II: Life Writings and Memoirs 13. Among Her Own 14. Maps, Shapes and Women Breaking (Out of) Homes: A Memoir 15. "Reaching out to Grasp Roots…I Stand Uprooted" 16. Dreams, Displacement and a Garden 17. The Women in Chambal (Translated from Bengali by Sanghita Sanyal) 18. Women in Conflict.