Resistance and its discontents in South Asian women's fiction. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Maryam Mirza.
• Authors: Mirza, Maryam
• Contents: Introduction: revisiting resistance (again); 1 Resisting activism: the politics of apathy and disengagement in Difficult Daughters and Broken Verses ; 2 Revolutionary love and the romance of resistance: Broken Verses, The Lowland, The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness ; 3 ‘Ordinary’ defiances and the short story; 4 Queering resistance: A Married Woman, Babyji and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness ; 5 Troubled resistance, troubling resistance: Homework, The Namesake and A Disobedient Girl ; 6 Writing as resistance? A Golden Age, The Good Muslim and The Gypsy Goddess ; Epilogue: resisting idealising resistance; ; Index
• Publisher Details: Manchester : Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (248 pages)
• Subjects: 823.91099287; Indic fiction (English) -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Indic fiction (English) -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Indic fiction (English) -- 21st century -- History and criticism; Oppression (Psychology) in literature
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781526150608; 9781526150622
• Related ISBNs: 9781526150615
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