Partition, despite seventy long years of its taking place, remains till date an event unsettled, unresolved, unpurged and unaccounted for in the historical, social, political and cultural psyche of the Indian sub-continent. The violence, massacre, bloodshed, trauma and the massive uprootings and ruptures that followed in its wake, constituted a prelude not just to the formation of new nations and to new structures of state and power, but to the transformation of ...
This compendium of 20 papers tries to look into the character of man through the eyes of Indian women novelists. Assessing the objectification of the male in media and literature, it addresses issues concerning gendered interplay, stereotypes of masculinity, male mannerism, marital violence, male chauvinism, alienation, futility and disenchantment. The women novelists, whose works are studied in this book, include Qurratul Ain Haider, Anita Desai, Dina Mehta, ...
