- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. (Mar 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0304703214
- ISBN-13: 978-0304703210
- Product Dimensions: 23.9 x 15.1 x 2.3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,719,947 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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An examination of India's bourgeois, its lifestyle and aspirations as manifested in fiction and film. It begins by looking at heroines and notions of idealized womanhood in a historical perspective, and examines how these are reworked in modern narratives, how conflicts are resolved and new models developed. A major theme is the redefinition of love and romance among the Indian middle classes, as part of the creation of a bourgeois individual revolving around love, romance and marriage. The book concentrates on the most radical of India's metropolitan bourgeoisies, that of the city of Mumbai (Bombay).
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Lack of insight
14 Feb 2001
Although Dwyer appears to know exactly what she wants to talk about in this book the subject and style seem to clash on every page. Instead of being an insightful commentary on contemporary society in India the prose toils through numerous references to colonial times and never really gets to the point. The result is a text that is long drawn out but only really skims the surface of the many facets of social interaction and romance in India today.
This book is tough going and a very disappointing read.
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