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
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Mercanti Stefano 2011, 'Displacing Androcracy: Cosmopolitan Partnerships in Bapsi Sidhwa's Water', UTS, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 162-175.
Issue Date:: 2011

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Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Mercanti, S	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2012-10-12T03:35:13Z
dc.date.available	2012-10-12T03:35:13Z
dc.date.issued	2011	en_US
dc.identifier	2011000721	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Mercanti Stefano 2011, 'Displacing Androcracy: Cosmopolitan Partnerships in Bapsi Sidhwa's Water', UTS, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 162-175.	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1837-5391	en_US
dc.identifier.other	C1	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/18961
dc.description.abstract	Set against the backdrop of Gandhi's Freedom Movement, Water pushes the boundaries of India's 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 Sidhwa's 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
dc.publisher	UTS	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Verified OK	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/mcs/article/view/2293	en_US
dc.subject	Partnership studies; cosmopolitan partnerships	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Sociology	en_US
dc.title	Displacing Androcracy: Cosmopolitan Partnerships in Bapsi Sidhwa's Water	en_US
dc.type	Journal article
utslib.citation.volume	3	en_US
utslib.citation.number	3	en_US
utslib.location	Sydney, Australia	en_US
utslib.citation.startpage	162	en_US
utslib.citation.endpage	175	en_US
utslib.identifier.org	FASS.Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	en_US
utslib.for	160800	en_US
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utslib.copyright.status	open_access

Abstract:

Set against the backdrop of Gandhi's Freedom Movement, Water pushes the boundaries of India's 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 Sidhwa's 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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