About the Book: Images and Representation of the Rural Women
The construct of the rural woman is vitally significant for the centrality of
the village in the Indian literary canon. The concentration of the Indian
English feminist canon on the urban-centric metropolitan discourse to the
marginalisation of native, subaltern voices and traditions from varying
geographical and cultural sites in the national state in terms of caste, class,
religion and gender posits the need to relocate the marginalised rural centre
and reclaim and reinvent the rural womans images in the backdrop of the polemic
of representation and pedagogy, on the one hand, and the nuanced multi-layered,
multi-faceted and multi-dimensional