Indira Goswami margins and beyond / edited by Namrata Pathak and Dibyajyoti Sarma.
| Other author | Pathak, Namrata. |
| Other author | ¿šarm♯, Dibyajyoti (Book editor) |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022. |
| Description | pages cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Datal hatir uye khowa howdah / translated by Dibyajyoti Sarma -- Neelakanthi braja / translated by Gayatri Bhattacharyya -- Tej aru dhulire dhushorito pristha / translated by Pradip Acharya -- Ahiran / translated by Dibyajyoti Sarma -- "Jatra" / translated by Anindita Kar -- "Pashu" / translated by Anindita Kar -- "Sanskar" / translated by Anindita Kar -- "Parashu patarar naad" / translated by Anindita Kar -- An unfinished autobiography / translated by Dibyajyoti Sarma -- Border conflict, love from Pakistan, and a poem / translated by Stuti Goswami and Jahnu Bharadwaj -- The last meeting of Indira Gandhi and Amrita Pritam / translated by Stuti Goswami and Jahnu Bharadwaj -- Burning / translated by Stuti Goswami and Jahnu Bharadwaj -- The immortality of the Assamese language / translated by Stuti Goswami and Jahnu Bharadwaj -- At the hunger strike of Harijan-workers in Raebareli / translated by Daisy Barman -- Chandni Chowk / translated by Daisy Barman -- Days at Vrindavan / translated by Daisy Barman -- G.B. Road's prohibited neighbourhood / translated by Stuti Goswami and Jahnu Bharadwaj -- Accounts of inferno : a reading of Indira Goswami's select novels / Hiren Gohain ; translated by Jyotirmoy Prodhani -- Why is Indira Goswami great? / Aruni Kashyap -- The notion of love in Indira Goswami's writings / Nandita Basu -- Manavmurti : amplitude and entangled spatio-temporalities in "Jatra" / Amit R. Baishya -- The story of Rama in the critical-intellectual imagination of Indira Goswami / Dhurjjati Sarma -- Ramayana revisited : a reading of the socio-cultural life in Indira Goswami's Ramayana from Ganga to Brahmaputra / Pritima Sharma -- Perception of places and locations in Indira Goswami's select novels / Monbinder Kaur -- Of spaces and margins : reading gender and domesticity in Indira Goswami's The moth-eaten Howdah of the Tusker / Sanghamitra De -- The divine and the mundane : ritual sacrifice, blood and the feminine principle in Indira Goswami's Under the shadow of Kamakhya and The man from Chinnamasta / Vibha S. Chauhan -- Alternative masculinity in Indira Goswami's fiction / Preetinicha Barman and Dwijen Sharma -- Patriarchy and resistance in Indira Goswami's short story "The offspring" / Arup Sarma -- Contesting margins and gendered subalternity : women in Indira Goswami and Mahashewta Devi's short stories / Nizara Hazarika -- Trauma and therapy : a study of depression narratives in Indira Goswami's autobiographical writings / Sabreen Ahmed -- Women and film : a critique of "Adajya" / Prasenjit Das -- Blood that is shed in Indira Goswami's writings / Ratnottama Das -- The journey of a writer : an interview / by Subhajit Bhadra -- Stitching peace together : an interview / by Sanjoy Hazarika and Geeti Sen -- 'From the creative point of view, I differ completely from others' / Indira Goswami in conversation with Kushal Dutta ; translated by Sudipta Phukan -- The story behind my writing / Indira Goswami -- Translating an Axamiya saga : towards a new translationese / Uddipana Goswami -- Finding what may be lost : translating Indira Goswami / Dibyajyoti Sarma -- Cultural practices in translation : translating The bronze sword of Thangphakri Tehsildar / Purabi Goswami -- "A sister's confession" / by Sabita Sarma ; translated by Lakhipriya Gogoi -- Letters of Indira Goswami. |
| Abstract | "This book engages with the life and works of Indira Goswami, the first Assamese woman writer to win the highest national literary award, the Jnanpith, in 2001. From sociological treatises to a springboard of a socio-political milieu, Goswami's texts are intersections of the local and the global, the popular and the canonical. The writer's penchant for transcending boundaries gives a new contour and shape to the social and cultural domains in her texts. That every character is a representative of the society, that the context comes alive in every evocation of class struggle, power play, caste discrimination and gendered narratives add an interesting semantic load to her texts. While tracing the trajectories discussed above, this book foregrounds Goswami's act of going beyond the margins of varied kinds, both abstract and concrete, in search of egalitarian and democratic spaces of life. The book looks at Indira Goswami's works with a special emphasis on the author situated within the Assamese literary canon. It not only discusses the themes and issues within her writing, but also focuses on the distinct language and style she uses. The volume includes non-fictional prose, excerpts from her short stories and novels, viewpoints of critics, letters and entries from diaries, as well as interviews with Goswami about her writing and personal life. It engages with her works in the context of her multifaceted, almost mythical life, especially her avowed 'activism' against animal sacrifice and militancy in her latter career. Part of the Writer in Context series, this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of Indian literature, Assamese literature, English literature, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, global south studies, gender studies, and translation studies"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022021447 |
| ISBN | 9780367705466 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9780367705800 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |