Indira Goswami: Margins and Beyond

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Photographs
Preface to the Series
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: A Life Made of Thousand Broken Pieces: The Many Margins of Indira Goswami
Section I The Fiction of Indira Goswami
	a. Extracts from Novels
		Chapter 1 The Moth-Eaten Howdah of the Tusker
		Chapter 2 In the Shadow of the Divine Flute Player
		Chapter 3 Pages Stained with Blood
		Chapter 4 Ahiran
	b. Extracts from Short Stories
		Chapter 5 Jatra
		Chapter 6 Pashu
		Chapter 7 Sanskar
		Chapter 8 Parashu Patarar Naad
Section II The Non-Fictional Works of Indira Goswami
	Chapter 9 An Unfinished Autobiography
	Chapter 10 Border Conflict, Love from Pakistan and a Poem
	Chapter 11 The Last Meeting of Indira Gandhi and Amrita Pritam
	Chapter 12 Burning
	Chapter 13 The Immortality of the Assamese Language
	Chapter 14 At the Hunger Strike of Harijan Workers in Raebareli
	Chapter 15 Chandni Chowk
	Chapter 16 Days at Vrindavan
	Chapter 17 G.B. Road’s Prohibited Neighbourhood
Section III Reading Indira Goswami: Literary Reception
	Chapter 18 Accounts of Inferno: A Reading of Indira Goswami’s Select Novels
	Chapter 19 Why Is Indira Goswami Great?
	Chapter 20 The Notion of Love in Indira Goswami’s Writings
Section IV Spaces to Inhabit: Private, Public and In-Between
	Chapter 21 Manavmurti: Amplitude and Entangled Spatio-Temporalities in ‘Jatra’
	Chapter 22 The Story of Rama in the Critical-Intellectual Imagination of Indira Goswami
	Chapter 23 Ramayana Revisited: A Reading of the Socio-cultural Life in Indira Goswami’s Ramayana from Ganga to Brahmaputra
	Chapter 24 Perception of Places and Locations in Indira Goswami’s Select Novels
	Chapter 25 Of Spaces and Margins: Reading Gender and Domesticity in The Moth-Eaten Howdah of the Tusker
Section V Many Margins of Indira Goswami: Flesh, Blood, Spirit
	Chapter 26 The Divine and the Mundane: Ritual Sacrifice, Blood and the Feminine Principle in Indira Goswami’s Under the Shadow of Kamakhya and The Man from Chinnamasta
	Chapter 27 Alternative Masculinities in Indira Goswami’s Fiction
	Chapter 28 Patriarchy and Resistance in Indira Goswami’s Short Story ‘The Offspring’
	Chapter 29 Contesting Margins and Gendered Subalternity: Women in Indira Goswami and Mahasweta Devi’s Short Stories
	Chapter 30 Trauma and Therapy: A Study of Depression Narratives in Indira Goswami’s Autobiographical Writings
	Chapter 31 Women and Films: A Critique of ‘Adajya’ (The Flight)
	Chapter 32 Blood That Is Shed in Indira Goswami’s Writings
Section VI Indira Goswami in Conversation
	Chapter 33 The Journey of a Writer: Indira Goswami in Conversation with Subhajit Bhadra
	Chapter 34 Stitching Peace Together: An Interview of Indira Goswami
	Chapter 35 ‘From the creative point of view, I differ completely from others’
Section VII Writing as Translation On Language and Craft
	Chapter 36 The Story behind My Writing
	Chapter 37 Translating an Axamiya Saga: Towards a New Translationese
	Chapter 38 Finding What May Be Lost: Translating Indira Goswami
	Chapter 39 Cultural Practices in Translation: Translating The Bronze Sword of Thengphakri Tehsildar
Section VIII From the Archives of Indira Goswami Letters and Reminiscences
	Chapter 40 A Sister’s Confession
	Chapter 41 Letters of Indira Goswami
Section IX Gathering the Pieces Chronology and Bibliography
Indira Goswami: A Biographical Chronology
A Life in Pictures
Biographical Notes
Indira Goswami: Select Bibliography
Index