From 'a room of one's own' to 'a room in the home': Discourses of negation in Indian feminist post-colonial fiction of Anita Desai, Mannu Bhandari and Ashapurna Devi

The theoretical writings of many European and American feminists on Third World women and feminism foreground several problems regarding their understanding of Third World women. These problems are being increasingly brought to light by Third World women like, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Gayatri Chakraborty Spivak, Pratima Parmar, Valerie Amos and others. I personally have been inspired by Chandra Talpade Mohanty in conceiving and researching my dissertation which analyzes in a comparative light the struggle of three Indian Post-colonial women writers, writing in three linguistic traditions of India, namely, Anita Desai (English), Mannu Bhandari (Hindi) and Ashapurna Devi (Bengali), against the western feminist approaches to Third World women.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Comparative and World Literature

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Panjwani, Jyoti

Contributors dc:contributor

• Palencia-Roth, Michael

• Literature, Comparative
• Literature, Asian

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1996 Panjwani, Jyoti

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

9780591198546
AAI9712394
(UMI)AAI9712394

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/22136