Saswati sengupta (61 risultati)

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Condizione: New. pp. 349.

Condizione: New. pp. 349.

Pbk. As the monsoon rains wash over the city of Kolkata four women sit and read and talk in the kitchen of Kailash the old mansion of the Chattopadhyays where Uma comes to live after her marriage in the summer of 1962 Her husband?s silence about his mother and the childhood tragedy that beckons him from the shadowy landing of Kailash the embroidered handkerchiefs in an old soap box in her father-in-law?s room and the presence of the old green-eyed Pishi intrigue Uma But it is only as she begins to read aloud the traditional Chandimangal composed by her husband?s grandfather to celebrate the goddess that the smothered stories begin to emergeThe novel weaves in the history of the militant goddess recast as wife the Portuguese in Bengal the rise of print and the making of memories from the swadeshi movement to the turbulent sixties in Bengal as Uma discovers that the foundation of Kailash is not only very deep but also camouflages the stench of death 300 pp.…

Soft cover. Condizione: New. Contents: Acknowledgements. Notes on contributors. 1. Introduction. 2. The role of Tagore's literature/Niharranjan Ray. Home/Ghare: 3. Andare Antare: Inner worlds/Sambuddha Chakrabarti. 4. Teaching the wife: Miss Gilby, the English women, and the Antahpur/Shampa Roy. 5. Goddesses, women and the clutch of metaphors in Ghare Baire/Saswati Sengupta. 6. Beyond the intricate web of words: an essay on Tagore's Ghare Baire/Shirshendu Chakrabarti. World/Baire: 7. Contesting modernities: the two men in Ghare/Baire/Sharmila Purkayastha. 8. The peasant in Ghare Baire/Sumanta Banerjee. 9. Understanding Panchu: Swadeshi, Ghare Baire, and the lower-caste peasants of Eastern Bengal/Sekhar Bandyopadhyay. 10. Mirjan from the margins/Saswati Sengupta, Shampa Roy and Sharmila Purkayastha. Select bibliography. Index. "Towards Freedom is a collection of critical essays on the issues raised by Tagore's novel in a contemporary world where differences of religion, region, class, caste, gender etc., constantly demand to be addressed. It focuses upon the crafting of the novel out of complex historical contexts of caste, class and gender politics. By examining the play of ideologies in this novel, the anthology aims to help students recognise the importance of locating imaginative literature within its histories. Given that most of these structured hierarchies of oppression function powerfully in our lives even today. Towards Freedom stresses the continuing relevance of engaging with the issues raised by a novel which looks at the private and the political as intertwined.". …

Condizione: New. pp. xii + 207.

Condizione: New. pp. xii + 207 1st Published.

Condizione: New. The monsoon rains wash over the city of Kolkata while four women sit and read and talk in the kitchen of Kailash, the old mansion of the Chattopadhyays where Uma comes to live after her marriage in the summer of 1962. It is a place of mystery to Uma. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 124 x 23. Weight in Grams: 328. . 2013. paperback. . . . .…

Condizione: New. pp. xii + 207 Acknowledgements.

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Condizione: New. The monsoon rains wash over the city of Kolkata while four women sit and read and talk in the kitchen of Kailash, the old mansion of the Chattopadhyays where Uma comes to live after her marriage in the summer of 1962. It is a place of mystery to Uma. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 124 x 23. Weight in Grams: 328. . 2013. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

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hardcover. Condizione: Good. Cover shows wear, including heavy creasing on the front and light end wear. First page is marked, otherwise pages are clean: text and pictures are intact and unmarred.

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In The Song Seekers, the debut novel by Saswati Sengupta, the monsoon rains wash over the city of Kolkata while four women sit and read and talk in the kitchen of Kailash, the old mansion of the Chattopadhyays where Uma comes to live after her marriage in the summer of 1962. It is a place of mystery to Uma. Her husband's silence about his mother's murder and the childhood tragedy that beckons him from the shadowy landing of Kailash, the embroidered handkerchiefs in an old soap box in her father-in-law's room, and the strange presence of the old, green-eyed Pishi--all intrigue and mystify her. But it is only as she begins to read aloud the traditional Chandimangal--composed by her husband's grandfather to celebrate the goddess--that the long-buried stories begin to emerge. In The Song Seekers, Saswati Sengupta recasts the militant goddess Chandi as a wife and interweaves the history of the Portuguese in Bengal, the rise of print, the swadeshi movement, and the turbulence of the 1960s in Bengal. These disparate elements all come together as Uma discovers that the foundation of the mansion is not only very deep, but it also masks the stink of death.…

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Kartoniert / Broschiert. Condizione: New. The monsoon rains wash over the city of Kolkata while four women sit and read and talk in the kitchen of Kailash, the old mansion of the Chattopadhyays where Uma comes to live after her marriage in the summer of 1962. It is a place of mystery to Uma.

Brossura. Condizione: new. Traduzione di M. Capuani. Roma, 2013; br., pp. 384, cm 14x21. (Scatti). Intorno alla cucina dell'antica casa di Kailash e ai deliziosi profumi speziati dei piatti tradizionali bengalesi, si dipana il racconto di una saga familiare che nasconde un mistero sanguinoso. Tutto inizia nell'estate del 1962, mentre il monsone si abbatte su Calcutta e, fuori dalle mura di Kailash, la grande Storia indiana procede tra guerre e progresso sociale. La giovane moglie del figlio del padrone, Uma, è una ragazza istruita e "moderna" che un giorno decide di assecondare la richiesta delle donne di casa: leggere per loro il Chandimangal, un poema scritto dal bisnonno del marito e pubblicato con successo dall'impresa di famiglia, la Ganges Press. Il libro racconta e celebra il pantheon indù, ma via via che Urna legge il poema, le donne di Kailash si accorgono che questa versione del mito (e in particolare la figura della dea combattente a loro così cara) si discosta alquanto da quella che le loro famiglie tramandano di generazione in generazione. I loro dubbi si fanno sempre più insistenti e spingono Uma - lei che sa leggere e che può uscire da sola e andare in biblioteca ad approfondire l'indagine sulle caratteristiche della dea negli altri Chandimangal esistenti. Eppure le soluzioni ai misteri di interesse pubblico e privato della nuova famiglia di Urna non verranno dai libri, bensì dall'unica persona in grado di rivelare i segreti di Kailash, l'anziana Pishi, che vive da lungo tempo in quella dimora costruita sul sangue di una donna. Come reagirà la moderna Uma. Libro.…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. ISBN:9788124609279.

Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. Mutating Goddesses traces the shifting fortunes of four specific Hindu deities - Manasa, Candi, Sasthi and Laksmi--- from the fifteenth century to the present time. It focuses on the goddess-invested tradition of Bengal's Hinduism to argue for a historical evolution/devolution of divinities in tandem with sectarian interests and illumines in the process the knotted correlation of gender, caste and class in the sanctioning of female subjectivities through goddessformation. The critical studies of Hindu goddesses have been dominated by the sastrik perspective deriving from the Sanskrit scriptures authorized by the male Brahman. But there are religiouspractices and beliefs under the broad rubric of Hinduism that are neither governed by the male Brahman nor articulated in Sanskrit. It is this vibrant laukika archive-- - considered low from the hegemonic perspective---that Mutating Goddesses explores to realize the politic trafficking between this realm and the sastrik. The book excavates the multiple and layered heritage of the region which includes tribal culture, Buddhism, Tantricism, and so on, as is available in rituals,proverbs, verses, circulating myths, poetic genres and kathas, caste manuals, census records etc to illustrate how tradition is a matter of strategic selection. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 370 pages. 8.50x6.00x1.25 inches. In Stock.

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