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Author Batty, Nancy Ellen.

Title The ring of recollection : transgenerational haunting in the novels of Shashi Deshpande / Nancy Ellen Batty ; foreword by Jasbir Jain.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (xlii, 305 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Cross/cultures : readings in post/colonial literatures and cultures in English ; 126
Cross/cultures ; 126.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-296) and index.
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; 1 The Kernel, the Shell, and a "fish-stinking ring" -- Notes Toward a Cryptomimetic Reading of Deshpande's Fiction; 2 Haunted Beginnings -- The Roots of Domestic Terror in Deshpande's Early Fiction; 3 "I am like a house full of unclean things, never cleaned, never opened" -- The Maternal Crypt in The Dark Holds No Terrors; 4 "you can never be the heroine of your own story" -- Peering Into the Other's Crypt in That Long Silence.
5 "This book is mine as all can tell, if you steal it you will go to hell" -- Transgressing the Other's Crypt in The Binding Vine6 "What could my mother be to yours?" -- Disinheriting the Phantom in A Matter of Time; 7 "healing in the words" -- Deshpande's Contract with the Dead in Small Remedies; Coda "Still it moves"; Works Cited; Index.
Summary In The Ring of Recollection, Nancy Batty challenges the critical orthodoxy that Shashi Deshpande's fiction is transparently realistic and narrowly focused on domestic and women's issues. This study shifts attention towards the labyrinthine structur.
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Subject Deshpande, Shashi -- Criticism and interpretation.
Deshpande, Shashi.
Criticism and interpretation.
Deshpande, Shashi -- Criticism and interpretation.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Batty, Nancy Ellen. Ring of recollection. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2010 9789042031005 (OCoLC)672218378
ISBN 9789042031012 (electronic book)
9042031018 (electronic book)
9789042031005
904203100X
9042031018