{"id":519,"date":"2012-06-15T19:35:03","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T19:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.ryerson.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/uma-parameswaran\/"},"modified":"2024-08-12T13:38:18","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T17:38:18","slug":"parameswaran","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/parameswaran\/","title":{"rendered":"Uma Parameswaran"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Uma Parameswaran was born in Madras, India and was raised in Jabalpur. She completed her undergraduate studies at Jabalpur University, received an M.A. in English from Napgur Univeristy, an M.A. in Creative Writing from Indiana University and a Ph.D. in English from Michigan State University. Uma Parameswaran immigrated to Canada in 1966 and settled in Winnipeg, Manitoba where she continues to live. She is a retired professor of English at the University of Winnipeg and has a special interest in the area of South Asian Canadian literature. She has also written biographies of C.V. Raman, Nobel Prize winning scientist and his spouse, Lady Lokosundarai Raman, both published in India.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Fiction<\/h3>\n

A Cycle of the Moon: A Novel<\/h3>\n

Toronto: TSAR, 2010.
\nPS8581 .A688 C92 2010<\/a><\/p>\n

Publisher’s Synopsis<\/h4>\n

Using a deceptively simple and intimate style, Parameswaran explores the subtleties of love, marriage, sex, and family life in a changing South Indian environment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Fiction (Short stories)<\/h3>\n

Fighter Pilots Never Die<\/h3>\n

Winnipeg: Larkuma, 2007.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Fiction<\/h3>\n

Mangoes on the Maple Tree<\/h3>\n

Fredericton, N.B.: Broken Jaw Press, 2002.
\nPS8581 .A688 M36 2002<\/a><\/p>\n

Publisher’s Synopsis<\/h4>\n

Set in Winnipeg against the 1997 “flood of the century”, this novel spans twenty days in the life of an Indo-Canadian family–the Bhaves and their cousins, the Moghes. … [In the novel], members of this extended family face their individual crises, and emerge with a better understanding of themselves as they take [sic] establish roots in Canada.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Fiction (Short stories)<\/h3>\n

Pinto Sees the Light: Stories<\/h3>\n

Winnipeg: Larkuma, 2013.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Fiction (Short stories)<\/h3>\n

Riding High With Krishna and a Baseball Bay & Other Stories<\/h3>\n

Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, 2006.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Fiction (Novella)<\/h3>\n

The Sweet Smell of Mother’s Milk-wet Bodice<\/h3>\n

Fredericton, N.B.: Broken Jaw Press, 2001.
\nPS8581 .A688 S94 2001<\/a><\/p>\n

Synopsis<\/h4>\n

Inspired by real stories, the novella tells the tale of a sponsored wife of a landed immigrant, who soon experiences abuse followed by divorce with no spousal support from the husband that betrayed her.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Fiction (Short stories)<\/h3>\n

What Was Always Hers<\/h3>\n

Fredericton, N.B.: Broken Jaw Press, 1999.
\nPS8581 .A688 W42 1999<\/a><\/p>\n

Publisher’s Synopsis<\/h4>\n

Enlightened, compassionate and humorous, these stories and a novella explore relationships, especially women-oriented relationships, and the experiences of Indo-Canadians<\/p>\n

Awards and Honours<\/h4>\n

1999 New Muse Award<\/a> (Winner)
\n2000 Canadian Authors’ Association Jubilee Award for short fiction (Winner)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Anthology<\/h3>\n

Reading Writers Reading: Canadian Authors’ Reflections<\/h3>\n

Z1039 .A87 R43 2006<\/a><\/p>\n

Parameswaran, Uma. “Shifting Gears.” In Reading Writers Reading: Canadian Authors’ Reflections<\/em>. Danielle Schaub, photographer and ed. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2006, 292-293.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Anthology (Short stories)<\/h3>\n

Write Across Canada: Mapping the Country in 19 Chapters<\/h3>\n

PS8323 .C35 W75 2004 <\/a><\/p>\n

Warriar, Nalini. “Winnipeg.” In Write Across Canada<\/em>, commissioned by the Ottawa International Writers Festival. Roberts Creek, BC: Nightwood Editions, 2004.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Drama<\/h3>\n

Rootless but Green are the Boulevard Trees<\/h3>\n

Toronto: TSAR, 1987.
\nPS8581 .A688 R66 1987<\/a><\/p>\n

This three act play explores the interpersonal relations of members of the Indo-Canadian Hindu community living in Winnipeg, Manitoba.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Drama<\/h3>\n

Sons Must Die and Other Plays<\/h3>\n

New Delhi, India: Prestige, 1998.
\nPS8581 .A688 A19 1998<\/a><\/p>\n

Publisher’s Synopsis<\/h4>\n

Sons Must Die and Other Plays<\/span> reflects both the evolution of the Indo-Canadian community and the evolution of the writer. At one level, these plays deal with the demands and experiences of such universals as motherhood, bhakti, transplantation etc. while at the level of specifics, they delinieate the growth of theatre in the Indo-Canadian community.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Poetry (Chapbook)<\/h3>\n

Cyclic Hope, Cyclic Pain<\/h3>\n

Calcutta: Writers Workshop, 1974.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Poetry<\/h3>\n

Trishanku, and Other Writings<\/h3>\n

New Delhi, India: Prestige, 1998.
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Selected Criticism and Interpretation<\/h3>\n

Blackburn, Di Gan. “Uma Parameswaran.” In Asian American Poets: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook<\/span>, ed. Guiyou Huang, [267]-270. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2002.
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Diddi, Deepa. “Uma Parameswaran’s Preoccupation with Feminist Concerns in Mangoes on the Maple Tree<\/span>.” In Canadian Studies Today: Responses from the Asia-Pacific<\/span>, ed. by Stewart Gill, R.K. Dhawan, [170]-179. Delhi: Prestige, 2009.
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Kandiuk, Mary. “Uma Parameswaran.” In Caribbean and South Asian Writers in Canada: A Bibliography of Their Works and of English-language Criticism<\/span>. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 2007, 193-195.
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Meenakumari,V. “Being and Becoming: A Study of Uma Parameswaran’s Meera.” In (Ad)dressing the Words of ‘the Other’: Studies in Canadian Women’s Writing<\/span>, ed. D. Parameswari. Chennai, India: Emerald Publishers, 2008, 139-147.
\nPS8089.5 .A33 2008<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Links<\/h3>\n

Publisher Broken Jaw Press<\/a> website<\/p>\n

Uma Parameswaran personal page<\/a> at the University of Winnipeg<\/p>\n

Uma Parameswaran page by Sonja Maria Thomas at VG: Voices from the Gaps<\/a>: Women Writers of Color<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Uma Parameswaran was born in Madras, India and was raised in Jabalpur. She completed her undergraduate studies at Jabalpur University, received an M.A. in English from Napgur Univeristy, an M.A. in Creative Writing from Indiana University and a Ph.D. in … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":16,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-519","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18930,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/519\/revisions\/18930"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}