The Agent in the Margin

The Agent in the Margin
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Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Total Pages : 218
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ISBN-10 : 9781554582815
ISBN-13 : 1554582814
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Book Synopsis The Agent in the Margin by : Clara A.B. Joseph

Download or read book The Agent in the Margin written by Clara A.B. Joseph and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2008-10-10 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Agent in the Margin: Nayantara Sahgal’s Gandhian Fiction is a comprehensive study of the literary works of Nayantara Sahgal, daughter of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit—the first woman president of the United Nations General Assembly—and niece of Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister. Clara A.B. Joseph introduces Mahatma Gandhi’s political and philosophical to literary analysis and utilizes non-structuralist aspects of Louis Althusser’s theories of ideology to trace how characters marginalized by gender, class, race, and language in Sahgal’s work assume agency, challenging poststructuralist theories of cultural and ideological determinism. She considers how gender complicates autobiography and how the roles of daughter, virgin, wife, widow, and alien serve (often ironically) to highlight human dignity.


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