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AN ENDLESS WINTER’S NIGHT: MOTHER-DAUGHTER NARRATIVES FROM INDIA
Ira Raja and Kay Torney Souter (Eds.)
Rs 375 Pb 2010
81-88965-57-X
(All rights available)
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This collection of 21 contemporary short stories and poems from various Indian languages reframes the mother-daughter relationship as a significant issue for women’s writing from India. The daughter’s place in the family classes is often further complicated by the accelerating influences of education, travel, new forms of interpersonal relationship and reproductive technology that has given many young women new mobility and freedom to make decisions about their fertility, their relationships with men and the power structures of their communities. Included in this volume are some interesting examples of contemporary developments from the interpersonal to the technological impinging on age-old patterns of familial interaction and mediated through cultural specificities and the emotional tangles of the mother-daughter relationship. This
anthology calls upon feminist scholarship in India to foreground the mother-daughter relationship to permit new insight into what it means to be female in contemporary India. |
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IRA RAJA
is Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Delhi and post-doctoral research fellow at La Trobe University, Australia. She has edited Grey Areas: An Anthology of Indian Fiction on Ageing (2009);and co- edited, with John Thieme, The Table is Laid: Oxford Anthology of South Asian Food Writing (2007). Her work has appeared in various international publications. |
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KAY TORNEY SOUTER
is Associate Professor and Associate Dean Academic, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Australia. She has edited The Fertile Imagination: Narratives of Reproduction, a Special Edition of Meridian (2002), with Maggie Kirkman and JaneMaree Maher. Her work has been published in several international collections and journals. |
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| There could not have been a more representative anthology of mother-daughter stories and poems. They not only put the relationship at the centre stage but also portray what it means to be a female in contemporary India. .. . the book should be a welcome addition to the bookshelves |
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—The Tribune
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| It is difficult not to be affected by the sheer depth of feelings that are laid bare in some of these stories. |
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—Biblio
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