Intimate Class Acts : Friendship and Desire in Indian and Pakistani Women's Fiction
by Maryam Mirza
Edition statement:1st Published by : Oxford University Press (New Delhi) Physical details: xxx,190 Pages 22x14 cm | HB ISBN:9780199466742.
Subject(s):
Indic fiction (English)--Women authors
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Desire in literature
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Friendship in literature
Year: 2016
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General Stacks | Non-fiction | 823.0099287 M298I 2016 (Browse shelf) | Available | 58192 |
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In this scholarly work, Maryam Mirza examines ten novels in English by women writers from the Indian subcontinent. She explores the role of power and desire, and of emotional and physical intimacy in cross-class relations. Striking similarities in how gendered and classed identities are lived in India and Pakistan are revealed in this text
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