Maternal fictions : the representation of motherhood in Indian women's writing

Maternal fictions : the representation of motherhood in Indian women's writing

This project seeks to examine and analyse motherhood as presented by selected Indian women writers, paying particular attention to selected works by Ashapurna Debi, Mahasweta Devi, Shashi Deshpande, Anita Desai, Jhumpa Lahiri, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and Nandita Bagchi. My research engages with t...

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Main Author:	Karmakar, Indrani
Other Authors:	Chambers, Claire
Published:	University of York 2018
Subjects:	820
Online Access:	https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.745784

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