Isbn: 9788178243429 - feminist vision or treason against men?: kashibai kanitkar and the engendering of marathi literature (2 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. pp. xii + 339 Illus.

Soft cover. Zustand: New. Kashibai Kanitkar 1861-1948 was the first major woman writer in Marathi She was largely self-taught and keenly conscious of the benefits of women?s education She promoted this and other emancipatory measures for women through her prolific and wide-ranging writings both fiction and non-fiction deploying them as a mode of social reform discourse The present book includes translations of most of Kashibai?s works both her novels in abridged form; a review of Pandita Ramabai?s American travelogue; long extracts from Kashibai?s episodic autobiographical narrative as well as from her biography of India?s first woman doctor Dr Anandibai Joshee; and an article tracing the history of women?s education in Maharashtra A comprehensive introduction by Meera Kosambi contextualizes these texts and situates Kashibai within her social and literary milieu Kashibai Professor Kosambi shows was a pioneering writer who created a new paradigm in Marathi literature It was she who enabled Maharashtra?s rich tradition of women?s writings by foundational contributions which ?engendered? Marathi literature 352 pp.…