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Wendy Doniger An American Girl in India (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)
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- Book Title
- An American Girl in India : Letters and Recollections, 1963-64
- Publication Name
- An American Girl in India
- Title
- An American Girl in India
- Subtitle
- Letters and Recollections, 1963–64
- ISBN-10
- 1438494173
- EAN
- 9781438494173
- ISBN
- 9781438494173
- Publisher
- STATE University of New York Press
- Release Year
- 2023
- Release Date
- 01/08/2023
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Item Weight
- 8 Oz
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography
- Topic
- Women, Personal Memoirs
- Type
- Ethnography
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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Publisher
STATE University of New York Press
ISBN-10
1438494173
ISBN-13
9781438494173
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12061604133
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Book Title
An American Girl in India : Letters and Recollections, 1963-64
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2023
Topic
Women, Personal Memoirs
Genre
Biography & Autobiography
Format
Trade Paperback
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Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
8 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
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"By the time of her departure in March 1964, India had 'claimed' Ms. Doniger. It is a country, she tells us, that has a way of 'wearing you down by small coincidences, absorbing your small self in its greatness.' She returned to America with a smattering of Bengali, relatively robust Sanskrit and a passion for Hindu gods, whom she came to admire, she says, for their flaws and foibles. Many years later, these same gods would be invoked against her by Ms. Doniger's opponents, who lack her humane finesse, zealots whose grasp of India is so much poorer than her own." -- Wall Street Journal
Table Of Content
Preface 1. Prelude in England 2. Arrival and First Days in India 3. Shantiniketan 4. Calcutta 5. Travels in India 6. Return to Calcutta and Shantiniketan 7. The Congress of Orientalists, and Ali Akbar Khan Postscript Bibliography of Works by Wendy Doniger
Synopsis
Offers a portrait of India as seen through the eyes of a sensitive, sharp-eyed, and witty young scholar in the early 1960s., Wendy Doniger is Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor Emerita of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago and has also taught at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. She is the author of many books, including The Hindus: An Alternative History ; Hindu Myths: A Sourcebook ; The Ring of Truth: And Other Myths of Sex and Jewelry ; and On Hinduism ., Twenty-two-year-old Wendy Doniger arrived in Calcutta in August 1963 on a scholarship to study Sanskrit and Bengali. It was her first visit to the country. Over the coming year--a lot of it spent in Tagore's Shantiniketan--she would fall completely in love with the place she had, until then, known only through books. The India she describes in her letters back home to her parents is young, like her, still finding its feet and learning to come to terms with the violence of Partition. But it is also a mature civilization that allows Vishnu to be depicted on the walls in a temple to Shiva; a culture of contradictions where extreme eroticism is tied to extreme chastity; and a land of the absurd where sociable station masters don't let train schedules stand in the way of hospitality. The country comes alive though her vivid prose--introspective and yet playful--and her excitement is on full display whether she is telling of the paradoxes of Indian life, the picturesque countryside, the peculiarities of Indian languages, or simply the mechanics of a temple ritual that she doesn't understand. Those who have read and admired Wendy Doniger will be delighted to find much of her later work anticipated in these letters, and the few who haven't will get to see, through her keen eyes and able pen, India as they have never seen it before.
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