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JUST
BETWEEN US: Women
Speak about their Writing
Ammu Joseph, Vasanth
Kannabiran, P. Lalitha Kumari, Ritu Menon
& Gouri Salvi (Eds.)
Rs 350 Pb 2004
81-88965-15-4
(All rights available.)
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The interviews
in this volume are the outcome of a series of workshops
held with women writers during 1999-2001, on the
question of gender-based censorship and related
issues. Nearly 200 writers from 10 Indian languages
met to talk about the circumstances in which they
write and in which they are read and write about.
They represented a true cross-section of society
in terms of location, age, caste, community or religion,
and genre; as the discussions progressed they unfolded
a rich tapestry of experience and insight across
languages and regions; gender and genre; caste and
community.
The 18 writers in this anthology are among the best
known and best loved writing in India today. As
each one speaks of her own work with rare candour
and transparent sincerity, she also subtly illuminates
the particular context in which she writes. This
counterpointing of the personal and political, the
private and public, and the literary and social
makes for accounts that are, at once, most unusual
yet deeply moving.
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Featured
here are Shashi Deshpande, Sara Joseph, Jeelani
Bano, Imtiaz Dharker, Alka Saraogi, Bani Basu,
Gauri Deshpande, Vaidehi, Neelesh Raghuwanshi,
Manisha Joshi, Shahjahana, Githa Hiranyan,
Rajani Parulekar, B.M. Zuhara, Varsha Adalja,
Sugatha Kumari, Maitreyi Pushpa, Jupaka Subhadra
In association with
Women’s WORLD (India) and Asmita (Hyderabad). |
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