Women writing in India
Subtitle: 600 B.C. to the present
By: edited by Susie Tharu and K. Lalita.
Contributors: Tharu, Susie J.; Lalita, Ke.
Publisher: Feminist Press at the City University of New York; Distributed by Talman Co.
Published: 1991
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Indic literature -- Women authors -- Translations into English; Indic literature (English) -- Women authors; Indic literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Indic literature (English) -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Women and literature -- India
Description: These ground-breaking collections offer 200 texts from eleven languages, never before available in English or as a collection, along with a new reading of cultural history that draws on contemporary scholarship on women and India. This extraordinary body of literature and important documentary resource illuminates the lives of Indian women through 2,600 years of change and extends the historical understanding of literature, feminism, and the making of modern India. The biographical, critical, and bibliographical headnotes in both volumes, supported by an introduction which Anita Desai describes as "intellectually rigorous, challenging, and analytical," place the writers and their selections within the context of Indian culture and history.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (v. 1, p. 522-529) and index.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. 600 B.C. to the early twentieth century