A Genre of Her Own : Life Narratives and Feminist Literary Beginnings in Modern India

they overtly engaged with the centrality of writing, the dangers and secrecies involved, against an emerging proscenium of world literature. The narrative motifs encompass marriage and motherhood, domestic labour and caretaking, romance and sexuality, public service and intellectual prowess, religious quests and scrambles for livelihood, illness and aging, and often in the mode of wit, vigour and ingenuity. [Publisher's text]

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