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245			_aAmrita Pritam : _bthe writer provocateur _cedited by Hina Nandrajog and Prem Kumari Srivastava
260			_aNew York : _bRoutledge, _c©2023
300			_axxi, 304 p. : _bill. ; _c22 cm.
490			_aWriter in context
500			_aIncludes Index
505			_tPart 1. Thus she wrote ... amrita pritam's creative oeuvre
505			_tPart 2. Deconstructing the same
505			_tPart 3. Gender, nation, society
505			_tPart 4. Empowering the 'I'
505			_tPart 5. Word, image, idiom
505			_tPart 6. Romancing the media
505			_tPart 7. The legend lives on ...
520			_a"Amrita Pritam was a prominent Punjabi poet, novelist, and essayist who captured the realities of everyday life in the India of the early 1900s India and presented the unique voices of the women of the Indian subcontinent. This book offers a comprehensive understanding of the writer's work by situating it in the context of not just Punjabi literature but Indian literature, while showcasing their continued relevance in contemporary times. With a career spanning over six decades, she Pritam produced over 100 books of poetry, fiction, biographies, essays, a collection of Punjabi folk songs and an autobiography that were all translated into several Indian and foreign languages. This volume includes critical essays on her works as well as a selection of her poems and stories in translation including, 'A Call to Waris Shah' (Ajj Aakhaan Waris Shah nu), The Skeleton (Pinjar) and Village No. 36 (Khabarnama Te Chak No. 36) and excerpts from other prominent writings to give readers a glimpse into Pritam's her rich literary oeuvre as well as her legacy in a post-colonial India which is still grappling with many of the same taboos around gender, national and religious identity and women's sexuality. It discusses the diversity of themes and socio-cultural realities in her writings works focusing especially on her writings on Punjab, agency of her women protagonists, national and communal identities and the testimonies of the traumas which the cataclysmic 1947 Partition of India brought on women. A writer who consistently subverted the existing social, political and patriarchal structures of her times, both in her life and in her writings, this book encapsulates the relevance of her writing and her voice in our times. Part of the 'Writer in Context' series, this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of Indian literature, Hindi literature, Punjabi Literature, English literature, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, global south studies and translation studies"-- Collapse summary
650			_aHindi literature
650			_aLiterary Collections/ General
650			_aLiterary criticism
700			_aNandrajog, Hina _4editor
700			_aSrivastava, Prem Kumari _4editor
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