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Phosphorus and Stone

Name: Phosphorus and Stone
Author: Susan Visvanathan
ISBN: 9788189013707

by Susan Visvanathan

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Synopsis

Susan Visvanathan S New Work, Phosphorus And Stone Is Composed In The Lucid But Subversive Style That Characterises Her Feminist Writings. In This Novella She Examines A Fishing Hamlet From The Startling Perspectives Of The Bourgeois Enclaves Set Both In A Village Called Valli, Kerala, And In The Suburbs Of Chennai And Bangalore.

This Is The Story Of A Young Woman And Her Refusal To Be Betrayed By Death, Obsession Or Love. It Engages With The Activist Concern For The Fisherpeople As Well As The Problematic Of Middle-Class Loyalties And The Antagonisms Of Sect And Gender. The Most Complex Narrative, In This Slim Volume, Is The Apocryphal Reading, From A Feminist Perspective, Of Jesus S Resurrection.