Figuring the female
Subtitle: women's discourse, art and literature
By: Usha, V.T and S. Murali
Contributors: Murali, S.
Publisher: Women Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Delhi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 139
ISBN-13: 9788189110116
Subjects: Women and literature; Feminism; Indic literature (English); Women authors; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Women's empowerment: a woman-centered approach; title: Of garlands and nudity: women's discourse and the poetics of Bhakti; title: Raja Rao and Jhabvala: two variant versions of the Indian widow; title: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's The widow: reading the subtext; title: The private as the public: some theoretical issues in women's autobiography; title: Feminist critiques and art practices; title: New structures of signification: re-viewing the marginal in Keri Hulme's The bone people; title: Memory and meaning: the literary experience; title: The third eye: image of women on popular television in India; title: Simone de Beauvoir: woman extraordinaire.