On the Far Side of Memory
Short Stories of Lalithambika Antharjanam
Price: 450.00 INR
ISBN:
9780199477784
Publication date:
18/09/2017
Hardback
200 pages
Price: 450.00 INR
ISBN:
9780199477784
Publication date:
18/09/2017
Hardback
200 pages
Lalithambika Antharjanam and Translated by J. Devika
The first prominent voice who spoke on behalf of women, the first startling insights that represented the struggle against the repression of the women of the Namboodiri Brahmin community, Lalithambika Antharjanam’s stories cover half a century of her engagement with caste, gender, and nationalist uprisings.
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Lalithambika Antharjanam and Translated by J. Devika
Description
Housewife by day, daring writer at night, seated on the bare floor, this thinker of gender engaged with the thriving social and community reform movements of early-mid twentieth century Malayali society. The first prominent voice who spoke on behalf of women, the first startling insights that represented the struggle against the repression of the women of the Namboodiri Brahmin community, Lalithambika Antharjanam’s stories cover half a century of her engagement with caste, gender, and nationalist uprisings. In writing some of the founding texts of feminism in Kerala, she made powerful feminist interventions into literary realism in Kerala.
Relatively unknown outside Kerala and yet to receive the critical attention that is her due, this book seeks to resurrect Lalithambika as a feminist public intellectual.
About the Author
Lalithambika Antharjanam (1909–1987) is widely recognized as one of the first women to win acclaim in the early twentieth century as a writer in modern Malayalam literature. An active participant in the social reform movements of Kerala in the early 1920s, she won the Kerala SahityaAkademi Award for Agnisakshi in 1979.
Translator
J. Devika is associate professor at the Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum, Kerala, India.
Lalithambika Antharjanam and Translated by J. Devika
Table of contents
Introduction: A Woman among the Reformers
Life and Death
She, the Undying
The Sugar-sweet Kiss
Recognition
Prasadam
Is This Desirable?
Realism
Great Expectations
Legacy
At the Edge of the Field
Letter from a Woman Writer
Cobwebs
The Ruined Life
The Wooden Cradle
Facing the Flames
Within the Veil
The Signatories
Come Back!
The Scent of Breast Milk
On the Far Side of Memory
Sowmini Lodge
The Song Without a Songstress
Glossary
About the Author and the Translator
Lalithambika Antharjanam and Translated by J. Devika
Lalithambika Antharjanam and Translated by J. Devika
Description
Housewife by day, daring writer at night, seated on the bare floor, this thinker of gender engaged with the thriving social and community reform movements of early-mid twentieth century Malayali society. The first prominent voice who spoke on behalf of women, the first startling insights that represented the struggle against the repression of the women of the Namboodiri Brahmin community, Lalithambika Antharjanam’s stories cover half a century of her engagement with caste, gender, and nationalist uprisings. In writing some of the founding texts of feminism in Kerala, she made powerful feminist interventions into literary realism in Kerala.
Relatively unknown outside Kerala and yet to receive the critical attention that is her due, this book seeks to resurrect Lalithambika as a feminist public intellectual.
About the Author
Lalithambika Antharjanam (1909–1987) is widely recognized as one of the first women to win acclaim in the early twentieth century as a writer in modern Malayalam literature. An active participant in the social reform movements of Kerala in the early 1920s, she won the Kerala SahityaAkademi Award for Agnisakshi in 1979.
Translator
J. Devika is associate professor at the Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum, Kerala, India.
Table of contents
Introduction: A Woman among the Reformers
Life and Death
She, the Undying
The Sugar-sweet Kiss
Recognition
Prasadam
Is This Desirable?
Realism
Great Expectations
Legacy
At the Edge of the Field
Letter from a Woman Writer
Cobwebs
The Ruined Life
The Wooden Cradle
Facing the Flames
Within the Veil
The Signatories
Come Back!
The Scent of Breast Milk
On the Far Side of Memory
Sowmini Lodge
The Song Without a Songstress
Glossary
About the Author and the Translator