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In other words : new writing by Indian women

Author: Urvashi Butalia; Ritu Menon
Publisher: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1994.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:
Works by Indian women writers. In Urmila Banerjee's The Tamarind Tree Murder, a man who becomes a bigamist kills his mother to save her from finding out, in Ritu Bhatia's The Smothering, a woman married to an American first rejects her Indian past to appear more American, then goes back to it when misfortune strikes.
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Genre/Form: Short stories
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
In other words.
Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1994
(OCoLC)647090238
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Urvashi Butalia; Ritu Menon
ISBN: 0813322146 9780813322148 0813321727 9780813321721
OCLC Number: 29667935
Description: xxvii, 196 p. ; 21 cm.
Contents: A government of India undertaking / Manjula Padmanabhan --
No letter from Mother / Vishwapriya L. Iyengar --
Twilight / Manju Kak --
Dooz, Charu and the establishment / Subhadra Sen Gupta --
Portrait of a childhood / Shama Futehally --
Thanks, anyway / Achla Bansal --
The smothering / Ritu Bhatia --
Rites of passage / Bulbul Sharma --
Dying like flies / Ruchira Mukerjee --
The manuscript / Deep Bedi --
The remains of the feast / Githa Hariharan --
Mallika Farida / Urmila Banerjee --
Sara / Manorama Mathai.
Responsibility: edited by Urvashi Butalia & Ritu Menon ; introduction by Roshni Rustomji-Kerns.

Abstract:

Works by Indian women writers. In Urmila Banerjee's The Tamarind Tree Murder, a man who becomes a bigamist kills his mother to save her from finding out, in Ritu Bhatia's The Smothering, a woman married to an American first rejects her Indian past to appear more American, then goes back to it when misfortune strikes.

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