Impure Subjects within Power Structures: Female Subjectivity in Anuradha Roy's All the Lives We Never Lived.
Anuradha Roy's novel All the Lives We Never Lived explores female subjectivity during the Indian independence movement. This article applies Irene Gedalof's feminist theoretical framework, particularly her critique of purity and her emphasis on the mobility and positionality of subjectivity, to exam...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Literary Studies Vol. 41; pp. 1 - 17 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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Unisa Press
2025
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