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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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