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Hardcover. Zustand: New. Contents: Acknowledgement. Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. The other foot out of the threshold -- resisting patriarchy. 3. Resisting the Matriarch. 4. Childhood experiences as resistance. 5. Revisionist mythmaking as resistance. 6. Speaking pain -- resisting rape. 7. Summing up. Select bibliography. Index. "Resistance can be as esoteric as silence and silence can be as impenetrable as hegemonic power; conversely, both resistance and silence have the potential to challenge power. By its very nature, resistance in non-confrontational. It works subtly through seemingly small, innocuous everyday acts of non-compliance and achieves the desired results imperceptibly and slowly. As a socio-cultural-historical practice, resistance has been largely successful, the most obvious example being Gandhi's philosophy of 'passive resistance'; as a literary practice it poses challenge to the reader as well as the author. Indian women writers have provided variegated pictures of resistance practices in the modern Indian context. In this study, Bande examines the treatment of resistance in nine contemporary novels written in English. Through a close reading of the selected novels of Anita Desai, Shashi Deshpande, Githa Hariharan, Manju Kapur, Shobha De, Arundhati Roy and Bapsi Sidhwa, she examines women's conditioning, their internalization of patriarchy and the reasons for their inability to subscribe to any oppositional action. Textual resistance functioning within the feminist, cultural and post-colonial milieu of the novels provides a platform to understand the theoretical debates and identify various resistant strategies deployed by the creative writers. She traces--drawing on the theories of feminist resistance, resistance operative during the anti--colonial/nationalist struggle, and subaltern resistance - the inter-connection between gender, cultural practices and the western influence on India social system. Bande observes that despite the influence of the western ideologies, which cannot be avoided in the Third World context, and the present socio-economic changes, one cannot sidetrack the strong cultural leanings of the authors that provide unique ethos to the works. In her analysis, Bande focuses on issues such as resistance offered to patriarchy, to the matriarch as patriarchy's agent, rape and violence against women, childhood experiences as resistance and revisionist mythmaking as resistance. Recognition of resistance in these texts help us locate the implicit urges of women to re-define their 'self' and to survive not in abject passivity but with dignity." (jacket).

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Of parrots and Mynahs: reconstructing gender through folklore. 3. Re-mapping culture through literature: narratives as vehicles of culture. 4. Tagore's Chitra and folklore's Hidimba: power of the feminine. 5. Humour as resistance: the female voice in folklore. 6. The con textual contours: a study of four short stories. 7. The primordial and the modern: snake and night of the scorpion. 8. Gauri myth and reality. 9. Culture literature and human rights: a view from Indian fiction. 10. Can we exonerate Balram Halwai. This book is a collection of papers written for and read at various seminars and conferences over the years. That explains the range of topics and themes from culture to ecology, from mythology to feminism and from terrorism to human rights. The essays also represent a variety of critical positions and constitute a re-examination of some of the central issues in Indian literature. The defining feature of Indian writing is the quest to specify a space of cultural identity outside the hegemony. Thus, the need to preserve and project a distinct cultural identity has always been accompanied by the simultaneous incorporation or rejection of a colonizing alterity. Most of the papers contained in the volume, therefore, attempt to look at and understand culture from various angles. The purpose here is twofold: to make available researchers some new strands to critically view Indian writing and to analyse specific issues concentrating on textual and historical evidence. Many of the papers are linked by an interest in gender issues, although few address feminism directly. A few others offer a commentary on aspects of life across postmodern landscape but do not address postmodern theory as such. Those that have their origin in colonial and postcolonial situations do not dwell on the positive or negative attributes of that period. The book thus deals with culture, literature and nature to examine the central sites of their representation. The works explored here are not homogenous in that they belong to different sections of contemporary Indian society but this pluralism is indicative of the basic nature of literary criticism.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Contents Introduction 1 The necessary burden of violence and the compulsive search for peace sub continental realities of being in the worldJasbir Jain 2 Violence in creative and critical actsAvadesh Kumar Singh 3 Violence in the age of empire an Indian considerationRajesh Kumar Sharma 4 Innovative strategies to counter domestic violence exploring the state and community responses in Karnataka and GujaratVeena Poonacha 5 One hundred years of violenceJose Sol Lucia 6 Functions of violence a study of caste violence in David Davidars The House of blue MangoesPK Kalyani 7 Terrorism and violence Chitra Banerjee Divakarunis queen of dreams and Kiran Desais The inheritance of lossTS Anand and Manjinder Kaur 8 Violence in Indian literature some thoughts on domestic violence in Kiran Desais The Inheritance of LossSilky Anand Khullar 9 Nuances of gendered violence Shashi Deshmandes The Dark Holds no TerrorsJyoti KSingh 10 Partition violence in Jyotirmoyee Devis The River Churning A gendered perspectiveSeema Malik 11 Violent women in fiction by women writersUsha Bande 12 Victims of violence a study of three stories form tribal and Dalit writingUsha Bande 13 Power violence nexus Girish Karnads Tughlaq and Tale DandaVineeta Kaur Saluja and Shibani Basu Dubey 14 A study of Chaplins film the great dictator violence as irrational laughable and avoidableShyamala Vanarase 15 Power rangers violent media and violent childrenAnshu Kaushal Index Living surrounded by violence we have probably become immune to its impact and substituted the civilized culture with what may be called a culture of violence  terrorism conflicts domestic communal and gender violence violence in its psychological and physical forms socio-economic injustice systemic state and institutionalized violence rape arson killings You just name it and you see it in its myriad manifestations diverse human contexts and various dehumanizing formsViolence signifies ?force? as well as ?violation? Over the past several decades due to the rapid changes in social economic political and cultural environment violence has become an ugly reality a lived reality that can only be experienced; words can merely report the happening but not its intensity which is felt only by the victims Violence has been at the heart of intellectual debates all along human history Literature has from time to time focused on societal obsession with violence Cinema and TV too are now taking up the issue Man seems to be tired of conflicts wars terrorism and such other acts of brutalityThis book seeks to explore the prevalence and representation of violence in the contemporary society The articles contained in this anthology look at violence from various angles and mainly from the perspective of literature but the few papers on films television and those approaching violence from theoretical angle contribute to find patterns of violence in diverse ways There are ?kinds? of violence and the literature surveyed here is only a minuscule part of the forms of violence that have infested the humankind 232 pp.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Contents Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Locating the Diasporic discourse in postcolonial/postmodern contexts. 3. Karma Cola a cross cultural feast. 4. Raj between Rajniti and Kootniti. 5. A River Sutra secular humanist view. 6. Snakes and Ladders snapshots of a nation. Conclusion. Bibliography. Index. This study places Gita Mehta's works fiction and non fiction in the framework of Diasporic Studies and tries to ascertain how the author responds to the Indian realities vis a vis her western experience. To Gita India is home. Home stands for a safe place where there is no need to justify oneself to others but as a member of the Diaspora she ought to redefine her position. That she should feel the need to explicate and explain herself and her culture to the west is in itself an acknowledgement of cultural differences felt by the Diasporic consciousness. The book focuses on the fact that though she looks at her country with the bemused gaze of an outsider her strong urge to recover the lost essence and to return to the folds of her culture become explicitly obvious. Her works are set in India but they move in and out of the two cultures blending subjective experience with observations and imagination to recreate India that was and India that is. In dealing with Mehta's works one explores a varied territory of genre fiction non fiction and prose. The analysis yields the author's vision of certainty and faith in her culture and traditions but also her disappointment with the changing scenario of fast deteriorating values and overt materialism. However she camouflages her disillusionment underneath her flamboyant optimism and keen sarcasm. 204 pp.

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179 pages full of color photographs (illustrator). Contents Preface 1 Introduction 2 Bilaspur 3 Chamba 4 Hamirpur 5 Kangra 6 Kinnaur 7 Kullu 8 Lahaul and Spiti 9 Mandi 10 Shimla District 11 Shimla Town 12 Sirmaur 13 Solan 14 Conclusion BibliographyThis pictorial book gives visual impressions coupled with brief history of the forts and focuses on art and architecture including woodcarvings stone work specificities of the architecture like the Naggar palace of KulluManali area which has typical architecture with horizontal wooden slabs and mud walls that are quake-resistant temples and temple art associated with the palaces treks to these palaces and forts through thick pinewoods and steep slopes the atmosphere of awe and wonder local customs and culture 179 pp.