The Agent in the Margin: Nayantara Sahgal's Gandhian Fiction - Couverture rigide

Joseph, Clara A.B.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1554580439 ISBN 13 : 9781554580439

Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2008

Synopsis

This is a comprehensive study of the literary works of Nayantara Sahgal, daughter of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit - the first woman president of the United Nations General Assembly - and niece of Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister. Clara A B Joseph introduces the political and philosophical thought of Mahatma Gandhi to literary analysis and investigates theories on ideology by Louis Althusser to trace how characters marginalised by gender, class, race, and language in Sahgal's work assume agency, challenging post-structuralist theories of cultural and ideological determinism. She considers how gender complicates autobiography and how the roles of daughter, virgin, wife, widow, and alien serve (often ironically) to highlight human dignity. "The Agent in the Margin", through both close and symptomatic readings of literary and critical narratives, points to non-structuralist aspects of Althusser's theory of ideology that, in turn, indicate a role for agency. Joseph situates the complete literary works of Sahgal within the circle of significance of Gandhi for literary studies.This book will be relevant to readers interested in South Asian studies, gender studies, race studies, Gandhi studies, literary and cultural theory, and postcolonial studies.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1554580439
• ISBN 13: 9781554580439
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 247