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Maternal Fictions - Writing the Mother in Indian Women's Fiction (Hardcover)
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Maternal Fictions - Writing the Mother in Indian Women's Fiction (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
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This book constitutes a feminist literary analysis of motherhood as
presented in selected Indian women's fictions across a diverse
range of geographical, linguistic, class and caste contexts.
Situated at the crossroads of motherhood studies and literary
studies, this book offers a rigorous examination of the prosody and
politics of motherhood in this corpus. In its five thematically
focused chapters, the book scrutinises in depth such key concerns
as maternal ambivalence; maternal agency and caste; mother-daughter
relationships; motherhood and diaspora; and non-biological
motherhood. It attempts to understand the literary ramifications of
these issues in order to identify the ways in which fiction writers
reconceive of the notion of motherhood and maternal identities from
and against multiple perspectives. Another pressing concern is
whether these Indian women writers' visions furnish readers with
any different understandings of motherhood as compared to dominant
Western feminist discourses. Maternal Fictions advances feminist
literary criticism in the specific area of Indian women's writing
and the overarching areas of motherhood and literature by acting as
a launchpad into a complex constellation of ideas concerning
motherhood. The fictional universe is at once ambivalent, diverse,
contingent, grounded in a specific location, and yet well placed to
converse with discourses emanating from other times and places.
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