The ring of recollection : transgenerational haunting in the novels of Shashi Deshpande /
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| Author / Creator: | Batty, Nancy Ellen. |
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| Imprint: | Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2010. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xlii, 305 pages). |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cross/cultures : readings in post/colonial literatures and cultures in English ; 126 Cross/cultures ; 126. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11232775 |
Table of 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.