Name: Women in the Frontier Land: Mestiza Consciousness in the Novels of Tahmima Anam and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Women in the Frontier Land: Mestiza Consciousness in the Novels of Tahmima Anam and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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The book is divided into five chapters.

“Chapter One” entitled “Introduction,” provides a comprehensive introduction to the two mentioned novelists and their works, does an extensive literature review of the existing critical works on their writings and finally, establishes the stated point of departure.

The Second Chapter “War and Women Subjectivity in A Golden Age and Half of a Yellow Sun” studies the wartime agency of women in the 1971 Liberation War and the Biafran War respectively. It investigates into the genealogy of the emphatic emergence of women characters from their restrictive domestic spaces in times of national emergency and their eclectic and constructivist interventions in the said wars, from the background.

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About the Author

Dr. Gopinath Khutia is an Assistant Professor (Teacher Education, English) in Odisha Education Service (College Branch). He has completed his doctoral research from the Department of English, Ravenshaw University. The title of his Ph. D. thesis is: War, Race and Religion: Women Subjectivity in the Novels of Tahmima Anam and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. His research interests include Age Studies, Dalit Studies, Gender Identity & Gender Representation, War Literature etc.

Dr. Sambit Panigrahi is a Professor of English at Ravenshaw University, Cuttack. He holds a Ph. D. degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and his Ph. D. dissertation is on eminent, modern British writer Joseph Conrad. Dr. Panigrahi is the author of international critical books like Patriarchy against Nature/Woman: A Green Study of Joseph Conrad’s Fiction, and Voices from Africa: The Colonization/Decolonization Dialectic in J. M. Coetzee’s Fiction. He is also a translator, and his translated works are Ajivaka’s Laughter and The Dance of the Ghost and Other Stories. He has published many scholarly articles in journals of international repute including Italian Quarterly, Italica, Quaderni, South Asian Review, The Explicator, Notes on Contemporary Literature etc. He has presented papers in international seminars held in various reputed institutes including University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA. He specializes in modern and postmodern literatures and is presently working on various postmodern critical approaches to study eminent Italian author of postmodernity Italo Calvino.

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Black Eagle Books
Publication date ‏ : ‎ 6 February 2023
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 264 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1645603512
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1645603511
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 340 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.97 x 1.52 x 21.59 cm
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ India
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