Uma Parameswaran

Uma Parameswaran was born in Madras and grew up in Jabalpur, where her father was a Professor of Physics. She went to college in Nagpur, where she got a bachelor's and master's degree in English. She was a Fulbright Scholar and received an M.A. in Creative Writing (Indiana University) and a Ph.D. in English (Michigan State University, 1972). She has lived in Winnipeg, Canada since 1966. She is married to a mathematician and has one daughter. She is currently a Professor of English at the University of Winnipeg. Her areas of research are English Romantics, Post Colonial Literatures, Women's Literature, and South Asian Canadian Literature.


Uma Parameswaran has her own web page, and can be reached at parmswrn@io.uwinnipeg.ca

Bibliography



A Cycle of the Moon
TSAR Books (2010)

It is a tense autumn the year Mayura comes away from her husband, saying she will never return to the uncouth, lustful monster. Everyone in the family isaffectedby her arrival. A senseof collective guilt emascu- lates the men evenastheylectureheronthemoral dutyof returning toherwedded husband. A sense of outrage mingled with secret sorrow overcomes the women. No one knows what to make of Mayura. Meanwhile she behaves as though nothing and nobody can touch her. Using a deceptively simple and intimate style, Parameswaran explores the subtleties of love, marriage, sex, and family life in a changing South Indian environment.

Sawnet Review by Alice Clark

Fighter Pilots Never Die
Larkuma Press. (2006)

Sawnet Review by Srividya Natarajan

The Forever Banyan Tree
Larkuma Press. (2006)

Sawnet Review by Shanti Menon

Sisters at the Well
Indialog. (2002)

Sons Must Die and Other Plays
Prestige Books, New Delhi. (1998)

SACLIT Drama: Plays by South Asian Canadians
IBH Prakashana, Bangalore. (1996)

SACLIT: An Introduction to South Asian Canadian Literature
East West Books, Madras. (1996)

The door I shut behind me: selected fiction, poetry and drama.
Affiliated East-West Press (P) Ltd., New Delhi. (1990)

The Sweet Smell of Mother's Milk-Wet Bodice
(1989)

What was always hers
(1989)

Rootless but green are the Boulevard Trees
. (1989)



Mangoes on the Maple Tree
Broken Jaw Press, Canada. (1989)

Sawnet Review by Nalini Iyer

Cyclic Hope, Cyclic Pain
Writers Workshop, Calcutta. (1989)

Trishanku
Toronto South Asian Review. (1988)

Trishanku
TSAR, Toronto. (1988)

Books edited by Uma Parameswaran



Vignettes from Vineyards of Memory
McNally Robinson (2011)

Ten Manitoba seniors have contributed to this collection of memories. Born in Manitoba, different parts of Canada or different countries of the world, they record what life was like when they were children. Their memories are testimony to the diversity that is Canadian culture. As one of the writers has said, Our past is prologue to our grandchildren's future.

At the Gates
Larkuma Press larkuma2003@yahoo.com. 2004. (2004)

A collection of stories by 6 students in a creative writing course, as well as one by their teacher and editor, Uma Parameswaran. The stories are about death, darkness, drugs, violence and idealism. "...each of these remarkable characters stands at the gate between this world and the next..."

Quilting a New Canon: Stitching Women's Words
Sister Vision Press, Toronto. . (1996)

South Asian Women authors
Sawnet Bookshelf
Sawnet