From the Other One to the Only One: Prabha Khaitan and Her Autobiography

The article examines autobiography of Prabha Khaitan with reference to plausible global and cross-regional inspirations, and studies the narrative to track down some of the author’s individual strategies of constructing the narrative self. Prabha Khaitan enters into a discussion with autobiographic...

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Autor principal:	Monika Browarczyk
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Publicado:	Ksiegarnia Akademicka Publishing 2020
Materias:	Hindi literature dalit literature autobiography feminist writing Indo-Iranian languages and literature PK1-9601 Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania PL1-8844
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:a140d07b5c0e4d37b4ff9098be03a5fc2021-11-27T12:53:42ZFrom the Other One to the Only One: Prabha Khaitan and Her Autobiography10.12797/CIS.17.2015.17.051732-09172449-8696https://doaj.org/article/a140d07b5c0e4d37b4ff9098be03a5fc2020-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.akademicka.pl/cis/article/view/1669https://doaj.org/toc/1732-0917https://doaj.org/toc/2449-8696 The article examines autobiography of Prabha Khaitan with reference to plausible global and cross-regional inspirations, and studies the narrative to track down some of the author’s individual strategies of constructing the narrative self. Prabha Khaitan enters into a discussion with autobiographical texts of global and cross-regional importance. Apart from being a prolific Hindi writer, she combined multiple roles of a feminist, an intellectual, an entrepreneur, and a philanthropist in her lifetime. Her autobiography reveals various, often contradictory, identities illustrating thus a fairly liminal and dynamic positioning of a woman in the contemporary Indian society, which results from the interaction of various factors. Khaitan accounts her life as that of a rebel against social norms and breaks ‘the aesthetics of silence’ (Ritu Menon’s concept) imposed on women of her class and caste. She both challenges and to some extent complies with the dominant orthodox discourse on womanhood by introducing the imagery of the archetypical female divinity, both Satī and Śakti, which also explores much more subtle and entwined coexistence of women’s submission and subversion. Monika BrowarczykKsiegarnia Akademicka PublishingarticleHindi literaturedalit literatureautobiographyfeminist writingIndo-Iranian languages and literaturePK1-9601Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, OceaniaPL1-8844ENCracow Indological Studies, Vol 17 (2020)
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spellingShingle	Hindi literature dalit literature autobiography feminist writing Indo-Iranian languages and literature PK1-9601 Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania PL1-8844 Monika Browarczyk From the Other One to the Only One: Prabha Khaitan and Her Autobiography
description	The article examines autobiography of Prabha Khaitan with reference to plausible global and cross-regional inspirations, and studies the narrative to track down some of the author’s individual strategies of constructing the narrative self. Prabha Khaitan enters into a discussion with autobiographical texts of global and cross-regional importance. Apart from being a prolific Hindi writer, she combined multiple roles of a feminist, an intellectual, an entrepreneur, and a philanthropist in her lifetime. Her autobiography reveals various, often contradictory, identities illustrating thus a fairly liminal and dynamic positioning of a woman in the contemporary Indian society, which results from the interaction of various factors. Khaitan accounts her life as that of a rebel against social norms and breaks ‘the aesthetics of silence’ (Ritu Menon’s concept) imposed on women of her class and caste. She both challenges and to some extent complies with the dominant orthodox discourse on womanhood by introducing the imagery of the archetypical female divinity, both Satī and Śakti, which also explores much more subtle and entwined coexistence of women’s submission and subversion.
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From the Other One to the Only One: Prabha Khaitan and Her Autobiography

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