A genre of her own : life narratives and feminist literary beginnings in modern India /
A Genre of Her Own offers an alternative account of literary beginnings in modern India through a surprising range of self-fashioning by women in genres such as pamphlets, letters, travelogues, essays, autobiographies and novels. Paying close attention to style and intentionality, this study traces...
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New Delhi ; New York :
Bloomsbury India,
[2025].
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Table of Contents:
- Note
- Introduction: Contravention of Beginnings
- 1 The Pamphleteer, the Letter-Writer and the Essayist
- The vitality of just anger: Tarabai Shinde's Stri-Purush Tulana (1882)
- Letters for an eavesdropping public ear: Anandibai Joshee's letters (1883
- 1884)
- Assertions, contradictions and speaking of law: Rukhmabai's "Reply" (1887)
- 2 The Memoirist, the Dramatist and the Novelist
- The interlocutor of dreams: Rashsundari Debi's Amar Jiban (1897)
- A literary staging of operatic interiorities: Binodini Dasi's Amar Katha (1912)
- The novelty of romancing in prose: Swarnakumari Debi Ghosal's Kahake (1898)
- 3 The Elegist, the Diaryist and the Traveloguer
- Elegiac landscape for the unruly body: Krupabai Satthianadhan's Saguna (1888)
- Journaling for an audience of sisters: Atiya Fyzee's Zamana-i-Tahsil (1921)
- All roads and words lead to the King: Dosebai Cowasjee Jessawalla's The Story of My Life (1911)
- Conclusion: The Poet and the Chorus
- Savitribai Phule's Kavya Phule (1854), with Sunity Devee, Parvatibai Athavale and Haimabati Sen
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author.