CiNii Books - The Indian family in transition : reading literary and cultural texts

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- Dasgupta, Sanjukta
- Lal, Malashri

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The Indian family in transition : reading literary and cultural texts

editors, Sanjukta Dasgupta, Malashri Lal

Sage Publications, 2007

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Description

This book critiques literary and cultural representations of the Indian family to explore the manner in which the family and its structure are in transition. The papers explore (and expose) how the Indian family, whether in India or in diaspora, needs to be redefined in the current context-in this age of rapid industrialization, globalization (both cultural and economic), and the emergence of new technologies. The family is viewed from a variety of perspectives, as represented in film, theatre, and literature-both English and vernacular. Including reflective pieces by several well-known scholars, this volume offers a holistic understanding of local and global shifts and fissures that shape the family today.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: COLONIAL FAMILIES: RE-VISITING TRADITION As the Husband, so the Wife - Judith E. Walsh Old Patriarchy, New Patriarchy and Misogyny in One Late 19th Century Domestic Science Manual PART TWO: POSTCOLONIAL FAMILIES: SOCIO-ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES Women and Agency - Mukul Mukherjee Vignettes from Indian Families Modern Families and Independent Living - Sarah Lamb Reflections on Contemporary Aging Women and the Naga Family Today - Bonita Aleaz Communitarianism in Practice PART THREE: LITERARY REPRESENTATIONS Society, Family and the Self in Indian Fiction - Jayita Sengupta Imagined Family - Esha Dey Pangs of Transition The Politics of Home and Food in Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies - Irma Maini Representations of the Family in Marathi Dalit Autobiography - Pushpa Bhave Real and Imagined Gujarati Families: Shifting Positionalities of Gender in Contemporary Writings by Gujarati Women - Sutapa Chaudhuri Hypocrisy and Hollowness in the Indian Joint Family - Arpa Ghosh A Study of Mahesh Dattani's plays Reflections of Family and Women in Telugu Literature - N. Venugopal Rao A Look at Women's Fiction Globalization and Diasporic Family Dynamics - Mary Mathew Reconciling the Old and the New Food, Family, Widowhood in Ashapurna Devi's Short fiction - Naina Dey The Self and the Family in Telugu Women's Poetry - M. Sridhar and Alladi Uma PART FOUR: CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS The Family in Flux - Shoma A Chatterji The Decimated Family in Rituparno Ghosh's Films The 'Reel' Indian Family - Meghna Gulzar Reflections from Celluloid PART FIVE: MEMOIR Hunting for Fish - Meena Alexander A Poem The Family - Vidya Bal As I Saw It, As I See It Thoughts on Home... - Nonda Chatterjee Looking Back - Shashi Deshpande Small-Scale Reflections on an Ancestral Home - Makarand Paranjape Indian Families in the World - Uma Parameswaran Forty Years in Manitoba PART SIX: DIALOGUE A Dialogue with Amartya Sen - Sanjukta Dasgupta and Malashri Lal

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