The Indian family in transition
Subtitle: reading literary and cultural texts
By: edited by Sanjukta Dasgupta and Malashri Lal.
Contributors: Dasgupta, Sanjukta.; Lal, Malashri.
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780761935681
Subjects: Families -- India; Families in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: As the husband, so the wife : old patriarchy, new patriarchy and misogyny in one late nineenth-century domestic science manual / Judith E. Walsh; title: Women and agency : vignettes from Indian families / Mukul Mukherjee; title: Modern families and independent living : reflections on contemporary aging / Sarah Lamb; title: Women and the Naga family today : communitarianism in practice / Bonita Aleaz; title: Society, family and the self in Indian fiction / Jayita Sengupta; title: Imagined family : pangs of transition / Esha Dey; title: The politics of home and food in Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies / Irma Maini; title: Representation of the family in Marathi autobiography written by Dalit women / Pushpa Bhave; title: Real and imagined Gujarati families : shifting positionalities of gender in contemporary Gujarati women's writings / Sutapa Chaudhuri; title: Hypocrisy and hollowness in the Indian joint family system : a study of Mahesh Dattani's plays / Arpa Ghosh; title: Reflections of family and women in Telugu literature : a look at women's fiction / N. Venugopal Rao; title: Globalization and diasporic family dynamics : reconciling the old and the new / Mary Mathew; title: Food, family, widowhood in Ashapurna Devi's short fiction / Naina Dey; title: The self and the family in Telugu women's poetry / M. Sridhar and Alladi Uma; title: The family in flux : the decimated family in Rituparno Ghosh's films / Shoma A. Chatterji; title: The "reel" Indian family : reflections from celluloid / Meghna Gulzar; title: Hunting for fish : a poem / Meena Alexander; title: The family : as I saw it, as I see it / Vidya Bal; title: Thoughts on home / Nonda Chatterjee; title: Looking back / Shashi Deshpande; title: Small-scale reflections on an ancestral home / Makarand Paranjape; title: Indian families in the world : forty years in Manitoba / Uma Parameswaran; title: A dialog with Amartya Sen / Sanjukta Dasgupta and Malashri Lal.