Displacing Androcracy: Cosmopolitan Partnerships in Bapsi Sidhwa's Water

Mercanti, S

Displacing Androcracy: Cosmopolitan Partnerships in Bapsi Sidhwa's Water

Mercanti, S

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Publisher:: UTS ePress
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2011, 3 (3), pp. 162 - 175
Issue Date:: 2011-01

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dc.contributor.author	Mercanti, S	en_US
dc.date.issued	2011-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2011, 3 (3), pp. 162 - 175	en_US
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dc.description.abstract	Set against the backdrop of Gandhis Freedom Movement, Water pushes the boundaries of Indias male-dominant cultural narratives beyond patriarchal predicaments by questioning the religious tradition and the oppressive constraints imposed on Hindu widows. This paper aims to show how Sidhwas characters move toward more caring and life-enhancing scenarios by portraying relationships of mutual support in which human beings give evidence of `other possible patterns of construction of the self and forms of co-existence, thus overcoming the rigid discourses imposed by dominator hierarchies.	en_US
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dc.title	Displacing Androcracy: Cosmopolitan Partnerships in Bapsi Sidhwa's Water	en_US
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Abstract:

Set against the backdrop of Gandhis Freedom Movement, Water pushes the boundaries of Indias male-dominant cultural narratives beyond patriarchal predicaments by questioning the religious tradition and the oppressive constraints imposed on Hindu widows. This paper aims to show how Sidhwas characters move toward more caring and life-enhancing scenarios by portraying relationships of mutual support in which human beings give evidence of `other possible patterns of construction of the self and forms of co-existence, thus overcoming the rigid discourses imposed by dominator hierarchies.

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