The Indian Family in Transition Reading Literary and Cultural Texts

includes index and biblioraphy

PART 1: COLONIAL FAMILIES: RE-VISITING TRADITION CHAPTER 1 As the Husband, so the Wife Old Patriarchy, New Patriarchy and Misogyny in One Late Nineteenth-Century Domestic Science Manual Judith E. Wabh PART 2: POSTCOLONIAL FAMILIES: SOCIO-ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES CHAPTER 2 Women and Agency Vignettes from Indian Families Mukul Mukherjee CHAPTER 3 Modern Families and Independent Living Reflections on Contemporary Aging Sarah Lamb CHAPTER 4 Women and the Naga Family Today Communitarianism in Practice Bonita Aleaz PART 3: LITERARY REPRESENTATIONS CHAPTER 5 Society, Family and the Self in Indian Fiction Jayita Sengupta CHAPTER 6 Imagined Family Pangs of Transition Esha Dey CHAPTER 7 The Politics of Home and Food in Jhumpa Lahiri`s Interpreter of Maladies Irma Maini CHAPTER 8 Representation of the Family in Marathi Autobiography Written by Dalit Women Pushpa Bhave CHAPTER 9 Real and Imagined Gujarati Families Shifting Positionalities of Gender in Contemporary Gujarati Women`s Writings Sutapa Chaudhuri CHAPTER 10 Hypocrisy and Hollowness in the Indian Joint Family System A Study of Mahesh Dattani`s Plays Arpa Ghosh CHAPTER 11 Reflections of Family and Women in Telugu Literature A Look at Women`s Fiction N. VenugopalRao CHAPTER 12 Globalization and Diasporic Family Dynamics Reconciling the Old and the New Mary Mathew CHAPTER 13 Food, Family, Widowhood in Ashapurna Devi`s Short Fiction Naina Dey CHAPTER 14 The Self and the Family in Telugu Women`s Poetry M. Sridhar and Alladi Uma PART 4: CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS CHAPTER 15 The Family in Flux The Decimated Family in Rituparno Ghosh`s Films ShomaA. Chatterji CHAPTER 16 The "Reel" Indian Family Reflections from Celluloid Meghna Gulzar PART 5: MEMOIR CHAPTER 17 Hunting for Fish A Poem Meena Alexander CHAPTER 18 The Family As I Saw it, as I See it Vidya Bal CHAPTER 19 Thoughts on Home... Nonda Chatterjee CHAPTER 20 Looking Back Shashi Deshpande CHAPTER 21 Small-Scale Reflections on an Ancestral Home Makarand Paranjape CHAPTER 22 Indian Families in the World Forty Years in Manitoba Uma Parameswaran PART 6: DIALOG CHAPTER 23 A Dialog with Amartya Sen Sanjukta Dasgupta and Malashri Lal