Literary Constructs of the Self: Socio-Cultural Contexts - Hardcover

Literary Constructs of the Self : Socio Cultural Contexts

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Dust Jacket Included. Contents Introduction I Reflections of the Creative Self 1 Writing the Self UR Ananthamurthy 2 From Being to Becoming Rajee Seth 3 Writing the Self Intent and Content Mridula Garg 4 The I of the Storm The Self in Literature Form and Trans Form Lakshmi Kannan 5 Words Liberate Me Esther David 6 Writing the Self that Isnt or Not Writing the self that Is Boils down to the Same Writing the Self is What Each Reader Sees in It Uma Parameswaran II Critical Explorations 7 The difficulty of Writing Reading the Self Jasbir Jain 8 Becoming Canadian Becoming Indian History Politics and Ideology in Maluka Harish Narang 9 Beyond Purdah Inter subjectivity and Interstitiality in Imtiaz Dharkers PoetrySudha Rai 10 Childhood Ghosts and the Scars of Adulthood Lammings In the Castle of My Skin Urmil Talwar 11 Self Selves Voices in the Construction of Alias Grace Sudha Shastri 12 Fictionalizing Her Self Alice Munros Short Stories Bandana Chakrabarty 13 Unburying the Self Confessions of Failure in Alice Munro Nilofer Kaul 14 The Role of Focalization in the construction of the Self A Study of Three Canadian Short stories Preeti Bhatt 15 A Narrative of Self Reclamation Ramabai Espinets The Swinging Bridge Charu Mathur 16 Interrogating the Arab American Experience The Novels of Diana Abu Jaber Nidhi Singh 17 Writing as Healing Unless by Carol Shields Uma Mahadevan 18 The Vagaries of Memory and the Shaping of the Self Carol Shields The Stone DiariesMini Nanda 19 Self within the Shadow of History Santosh Gupta Index Literary Constructs of the Self Socio Cultural Contexts presents 19 essays divided into two sections Creative writers like UR Ananthamurthy Rajee Seth Mridula Garg Lakshmi Kannan and Uma Parameswaran explore the diverse modes of the narration of the self in literary texts and share their views on the construction of the self the impact of language upon the persona within the text and other related issues Critical essays in Section II examine the impact of translations between languages forms and mediums of literary constructions on the making of the self writers locations in history nation region and diasporic shifts are among the various contexts that shape not only their narratives but also the human images they contain Eminent critics like Jasbir Jain Harish Narang Sudha Rai Sudha Shastri Urmil Talwar and Mini Nanda read afresh literary texts autobiographies and films to relate them to their specific socio cultural aesthetic and psychological contexts The various frameworks work upon the imagination and creative powers that go on to formulate the human self in all its heterogeneity Poetry drama films and fiction are among the different cultural texts that these critics and writers explore in their deliberations upon the narrations of the self imagined real personal and community centred jacket 232 pp. Artikel-Nr. 84157

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