Figurações do feminino na literatura indiana contemporânea

Shirley de Souza Gomes Carreira

doi:10.5433/1678-2054.2007v9p3

Representation of women in contemporary indian literature

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Shirley de Souza Gomes Carreira Universidade do Grande Rio. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8787-8283

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https://doi.org/10.5433/1678-2054.2007v9p3

Keywords:

Woman, history, Islam

Abstract

Analysis of novels by two contemporary Indian authors, Salman Rushdie and Arundhati Roy, focusing the way they represent the female subject in a society profoundly marked by both a patriarchal discourse and an excluding system of castes.

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Author Biography

Shirley de Souza Gomes Carreira, Universidade do Grande Rio.

Professor at the Universidade do Grande Rio.

References

GOONETILLEKE, D. C. R. A . 1988. Salman Rushdie. London, New York: Macmillan.

HUTCHEON, Linda. 1991. Poética do pós-modernismo. Rio de Janeiro: Imago.

ROY, Arundhati. 2002 [1997]. O deus das pequenas coisas. Tradução de José Rubens Siqueira. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras.

RUSHDIE, Salman. 2000 [1983]. Shame: a novel. New York: Picador USA.

RUSHDIE, Salman. 1991. Imaginary Homelands. Essays and criticism 1981-1991. Londres: Granta Books.

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Published

2016-03-20

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Carreira, Shirley de Souza Gomes. “Representation of Women in Contemporary Indian Literature”. Terra Roxa E Outras Terras: Revista De Estudos Literários, vol. 9, Mar. 2016, pp. 3-10, doi:10.5433/1678-2054.2007v9p3.

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Vol. 9 (2007)

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