Feminism: Projections of Gender and Body in Literature

Date: 30 August 2022, 6 PM 
Venue: Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan New Delhi; the event will also be live streamed.
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About the Event

The feminist discourse is understood and experienced differently in different parts of the world. This is also reflected in literature. In this conversation with writers and publishers from Germany and India, we will explore how feminism and gender relations are reflected through literature in the two countries. We will discuss ways in which projections, societal norms and global movements have shifted the feminist discourse over time.   

Participants

Mithu Melanie Sanyal was born in Düsseldorf in 1971 and is a cultural scientist, writer, journalist and critic. Her non-fiction work Vulva. Das unsichtbare Geschlecht was published in 2009 and Vergewaltigung. Aspekte eines Verbrechens in 2016. She deals with feminist and postcolonial issues in her work. Her fictional debut Identitti speaks to ongoing discussions on race, culture and identity. It was published in English in July 2022. 
More information: Mithu Sanyal on "New Books in German"

Mithu Sanyal will participate in the event digitally​​​​​​.

Ritu Menon is a feminist, publisher and writer who has been active in the women’s movement in India and South Asia for almost over three decades. She is the author and editor of several books and anthologies, including the ground-breaking text Borders & Boundaries: Women in India’s Partition; Out of Line: A Literary and Political Biography of Nayantara Sahgal; Address Book: A Publishing Memoir in the Time of COVID; and most recently, ZOHRA! A Biography in Four Acts.

MODERATOR

Preeti Gill is an independent literary agent with more than 25 years of experience in the publishing industry as Commissioning Editor and Rights Director. She is the Founder of Majha House, the first of its kind literary and cultural platform in Amritsar, Punjab. She is the editor of The Peripheral Centre: Voices from India's Northeast, Insider Outsider: Belonging an Unbelonging in India's Northeast (along with Samrat Choudhry) as well as co-author of Bearing Witness: A Report on the Impact of Conflict in Nagaland and Assam. Her documentary Rambuai: Mizoram's Trouble Years was released in 2016. She is currently working on a book of non-fiction writings on Punjab.

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This event is part of a three-part series of events as part of the project "The Sound of Faraway Lands" on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Hermann Hesse's novel "Siddhartha". The literary series is curated by Mary Therese Kurkalang and Krisha Kops.