Junglee girl ginu kamani biography

  • Ginu Kamani was born in Bombay, India and moved to the U.S. at age She graduated with an M.A. in English and Creative Writing from the University of.
  • Ginu Kamani was born in Bombay, India and moved to the U.S. at age She graduated with an M.A. in English and Creative Writing from the.
  • Junglee girl is a Gujarat!

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    Junglee Girl

    September 21,
    I almost gave up on this set of stories about women and their experience of sex and cultural oppression. In fact, I did give up, but having had a break from being startled and shocked and bewildered into disbelief and feeling that I was in the presence of yet more creative-writing guff, I picked the book up again. This time, being prepared for what I was likely to encounter, I was more receptive.

    And I enjoyed the trip.

    So: not creative-writing guff, but some energised and imaginative stories about Indian womanhood. One or two are surreal or couched in metaphor, but most interpret the ordinary experiences of friendship, love and marriage, servant-mistress relations, sexual awakening or rebellion in an openly critical or subversive or hilariously ironic way. I think. – but not knowing well enough the culture from which the stories originate, and being a bloke, I don’t feel confident asserting even those straightforward statements.

    Some vignettes. In one

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    Ginu Kaamni in her debut, says reviewer Chat Garcia Ramilo, has assembled an unconventional, amusing, earthy and imapssioned cast of women and girls interacting across castes and generations.

    Junglee girl is a Gujarat! term that describes a wild and uncontrollable woman. It is the title of Ginu Kamani's first book which weaves together 11 short stories that unveil the erotic nature of Indian women. Well known feminist writer Alice Walker calls Ginu Kamani, "a new subversive voice; engaging and fresh." 1 couldn't agree more. In her first collection, Kamani regales her readers with often hilarious and at times intense stories of how Indian women and girls rebel against the rigidly ridiculous code that ruled their sexual behavior. The first story, "Ciphers," sets the tone and the subject matter of the book. In this tale, a Gujarati woman traveling to her home town from overseas comes to terms with her identity. She sends this telepathic message to an older Gujarati woman who fryst vatten enrage

  • junglee girl ginu kamani biography

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    Junglee Girl

    Junglee (stemming from the Sanskrit root "jungle") is used in India to label the wild, the uncivilized, the untamed. Used most commonly as condemnation or censure, it aims to break the spirit of women yearning for personal power. The kvinna protagonists in these eleven stories recklessly pursue their sensual paths through a complex social world that seeks to shut them out. With wily irreverence and a willful rawness, Kamani pulls back the veil of convention, inch by inch, and draws the reader into the disquieting truth of women's lives, charting territory both intimate and bizarre.

    This collection of delightful and sometimes provocative stories surprise and arouseGinu Kamani's stories are tinged with humour and are often disturbing in their exploration of taboo passions and desires. Kamani is an original storyteller who writes from 'inside' the culture, claiming a rightful space for Indian women to define themselves. -- Pratibha Parmar

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