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In So Many Words: Women's Life Experiences from Western and Eastern India

In So Many Words: Women's Life Experiences from Western and Eastern India

Basu, Aparna
Karlekar, Malavika

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1138164739
ISBN13: 9781138164734
Publisher: Routledge India
Published: Apr 20 2017
Pages: 152
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.38 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English

This volume will mark a new trend in dealing with women's varied experiences of life: individual introductions situate the narrator in a context - and then her voice takes over, with no intervention from the editors (except to provide footnotes wherever necessary).

The personal narrative -- be it an autobiography, a letter or a diary -- has come to be recognised as an acceptable data source in history and social science. Literary critics and students of literature too find considerable use in reading the personal writings of poets, fiction and crime writers. In this book, readings of personal narratives help in painting various images of lives that we can only know at second hand. The mélange includes memoirs, published articles, 'portraits from memory', a collection of essays, and an oral interview. In all, the self was the focus. The writings of Sailabala, Li Gotami, and Shakuntala go beyond a recounting of their lives and deal with spiritual and travel experiences. Three of the essays are excerpts from published autobiographies -- Sarala Devi Chaudhurani's Jeevaner Jharapata (Life's Fallen Leaves), Kalpana Dutt's Reminiscences and Sailabala Das's A Look Before and After. Vidyagauri Nilkanth's writings are essays and a selection of amazingly candid letters exchanged with her husband. Anasuya Sarabahi's is an interview in Gujarati with niece Gira and Monica's a selection from an unpublished memoir. Li Gotami, whose original name was Rutty Petit, travelled to Manasarovar, and a few of the magazine articles on this amazing journey have been reproduced here.

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