By Sunita Sinha

Since Simone de Beauvoir first proclaimed that ‘One isn't really born a girl, one turns into one’, the learn of gender has develop into some of the most major new disciplines within the humanities and social sciences. Enriching our wisdom of the representations that tell our realizing of masculinity, femininity and queerity, “Rethinking Gender: Masculinity, Femininity and Queerity in Postcolonial Indian Fiction” examines, among different issues, the which means and relevance of gender on a variety of degrees. This e-book will try and identify a significant argument that might permit readers to work out an rising trend during which problems with femininity, masculinity, and conflicting sexualities can be tested, hence, supplying a multi-faceted method of the primary query of how during which gender is being represented in literary works of the Indian novelists. This multilayered booklet, lucidly written and theoretically exhilarating, could be a useful addition to scholars and lecturers in gender stories, literature, cultural reports, and a number of different disciplines.

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