The Resource A kitchen in the corner of the house, Ambai ; translated from the Tamil by Lakshmi Holmström
A kitchen in the corner of the house, Ambai ; translated from the Tamil by Lakshmi Holmström
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The item A kitchen in the corner of the house, Ambai ; translated from the Tamil by Lakshmi Holmström represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Santa Clara County Library District.
This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
- Summary
- "In A Kitchen in the Corner of the House, Ambai's narrators are daring and courageous, stretching and reinventing their homes, marriages, and worlds. With each story, her expansive voice confronts the construction of gender in Tamil literature. Piecing together letters, journal entries, and notes, Ambai weaves themes of both self-liberation and confinement into her writing. Her transfixing stories often meditate on motherhood, sexuality, and the liberating, and at times inhibiting, contours of the body"--
- Language
-
- eng
- tam
- eng
- Edition
- First Archipelago Books edition.
- Extent
- 363 pages
- Contents
-
- In a forest, a deer
- Once again
- A kitchen in the corner of the house
- Journey 4
- My mother, her crime
- Forest
- Wrestling
- A rat, a sparrow
- River
- Trisanku
- Journey 3
- Parasakti and others in a plastic box
- Wheelchair
- A thousand words, one life
- The calf that frolicked in the hall
- Journey 1
- A movement, a folder, some tears
- Some deaths
- A fable
- Fish in a dwindling lake
- Yellow fish
- Isbn
- 9781939810441
- Label
- A kitchen in the corner of the house
- Title
- A kitchen in the corner of the house
- Statement of responsibility
- Ambai ; translated from the Tamil by Lakshmi Holmström
- Language
-
- eng
- tam
- eng
- Summary
- "In A Kitchen in the Corner of the House, Ambai's narrators are daring and courageous, stretching and reinventing their homes, marriages, and worlds. With each story, her expansive voice confronts the construction of gender in Tamil literature. Piecing together letters, journal entries, and notes, Ambai weaves themes of both self-liberation and confinement into her writing. Her transfixing stories often meditate on motherhood, sexuality, and the liberating, and at times inhibiting, contours of the body"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- YDX
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1944-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Ambai
- Dewey number
- 894.8/11371
- Index
- no index present
- Language note
- In English, translated from the Tamil
- LC call number
- PL4758.9.A38
- LC item number
- A2 2019
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Holmstrom, Lakshmi
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Indian women
- Short stories, Tamil
- Label
- A kitchen in the corner of the house, Ambai ; translated from the Tamil by Lakshmi Holmström
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- In a forest, a deer -- Once again -- A kitchen in the corner of the house -- Journey 4 -- My mother, her crime -- Forest -- Wrestling -- A rat, a sparrow -- River -- Trisanku -- Journey 3 -- Parasakti and others in a plastic box -- Wheelchair -- A thousand words, one life -- The calf that frolicked in the hall -- Journey 1 -- A movement, a folder, some tears -- Some deaths -- A fable -- Fish in a dwindling lake -- Yellow fish
- Dimensions
- 17 cm
- Edition
- First Archipelago Books edition.
- Extent
- 363 pages
- Isbn
- 9781939810441
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- on1080275577
- (OCoLC)1080275577
- Label
- A kitchen in the corner of the house, Ambai ; translated from the Tamil by Lakshmi Holmström
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- In a forest, a deer -- Once again -- A kitchen in the corner of the house -- Journey 4 -- My mother, her crime -- Forest -- Wrestling -- A rat, a sparrow -- River -- Trisanku -- Journey 3 -- Parasakti and others in a plastic box -- Wheelchair -- A thousand words, one life -- The calf that frolicked in the hall -- Journey 1 -- A movement, a folder, some tears -- Some deaths -- A fable -- Fish in a dwindling lake -- Yellow fish
- Dimensions
- 17 cm
- Edition
- First Archipelago Books edition.
- Extent
- 363 pages
- Isbn
- 9781939810441
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- on1080275577
- (OCoLC)1080275577
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