| Description |
1 online resource (327 p.) |
| Series |
Writer in Context Ser |
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Writer in Context Ser
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| Contents |
Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Photographs -- Preface to the Series -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Daughter of Words -- Part I Thus She Wrote ...: Amrita Pritam's Creative Oeuvre -- I (a) Amrita's Poetic Self -- Chapter 1 Select Poems -- I (b) Amrita -- The Storyteller -- Chapter 2 The Skeleton -- Chapter 3 Village No. 36 -- Chapter 4 Urmi -- Chapter 5 'The Shah's Harlot' -- I (c) Amrita -- Transcending the Self -- Chapter 6 Spiritual Writings -- I (d) Amrita -- Writing the Self -- Chapter 7 The Revenue Stamp |
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Part II Deconstructing the Self -- Chapter 8 Love and Dissent: The Making of a Self in Amrita Pritam's Autobiographical Writings -- Chapter 9 Desire, Love and Spirituality: Transformation of the Self in Amrita Pritam's Writings -- Chapter 10 The Enchantment of the 'Magician' Sahir -- Part III Gender, Nation, Society -- Chapter 11 Cultures of Honour, Cultures of Trauma: A Reading of Amrita Pritam's Pinjar -- Chapter 12 Multiple Patriarchies and the Syncretic, Gendered Voice of Amrita Pritam -- Chapter 13 Negotiating Gendered Contexts of the Nation-State: A Reading of Amrita Pritam's Select Fiction |
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Part IV Empowering the 'I' -- Chapter 14 Amrita Pritam's Legacy: Envisioning a Brave New World -- Chapter 15 Women Out of Love -- Chapter 16 Labour of Love: Amrita-Imroz and Nagmani -- Part V Word, Image, Idiom -- Chapter 17 An Ache Inhaled: The Poetic Sensibility of Amrita Pritam -- Chapter 18 Beyond the Worldly: Mysticism in Amrita Pritam's Later Writings -- Chapter 19 Linguistic Discourse of Amrita Pritam's Writings -- Part VI Romancing the Media -- Chapter 20 Demystifying the 'Legendary':: Re-visiting Amrita Pritam through Her Interface with Popular Indian Media (1947-2005) |
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Chapter 21 Playing Amrita: Deepti Naval in Conversation with Rekha Sethi and Sukrita Paul Kumar -- Chapter 22 Directing Amrita: Salim Arif in Conversation with Prem Kumari Srivastava -- Part VII The Legend Lives on ... -- Chapter 23 Call Out, Where Art Thou ... -- Chapter 24 Amrita! The Nonpareil -- Chapter 25 Amrita Pritam: My Inspiration -- Chapter 26 One's Share of the Scent of Maulsari -- Chapter 27 'Tea with Amma Ji': Reminiscences by Aman Kwatra, Amrita Pritam's Grandson -- Life Extraordinaire: Biochronology -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Srivastava, Prem Kumari
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| ISBN |
9781000822151 |
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100082215X |
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