Contemporary Indian Women Novelists in English
Contents: Preface. 1. Exploring the unknown: a discourse on identity and space in Manju Kapur’s Difficult Daughters/Durbadal Bhattacharya. 2. Shashi Deshpande’s That Long Silence: a study of silences/Kumar Gautam Anand. 3. Narrative patterns: measures of feminine discourse in Manu Kapur’s first two novels/Indu Swamy. 4. Lesbian? May be: bisexual? How Can She!! Female-bisexual in Manju Kapur’s A Married Woman/Kaustav Chakraborty. 5. Globalization: a perspective in Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss/Ashutosh Singh and Shyam Babu. 6. Globalization and rootlessness in The Inheritance of Loss/Smriti Singh and Pooja. 7. Shobha De’: Deconstructed for Maverick Feminism/Shweta Singh and Prerna Singh. 8. Jhumpa Lahiri: at the confluence of Indo-American culture/Aju Mukhopadhyay. 9. Metaphors in Anita Nair’s Lessons in Forgetting/Vandana Pathak. 10. Pre-independence Indian nationalism as a foil to feminism: exploring traditionalism in Sunetra Gupta’s female characters/Aindrilla Guin. 11. Indian feminism in Shashi Deshpande’s The Dark Holds No Terrors/S. Kanitha. 12. Gender inequality in Easterine Iralu’s A Terrible Matriarchy/A.J. Sebastian Sdb. 13. Untouchability in The God of Small Things: A tragic tale of Paravan Velutha/Indu Swamy. 14. Archetypal patterns in the novels of Shashi Deshpande/Aparajita Ray. 15. Rupa Bajwa’s The Sari Shop: postcolonial critique of the idea of nation/Namrata Nistandra. 16. Indian diaspora: encompass culture in Jhumpa Lahiri’s works/Indu Goyal. 17. Dynamics of culture and anti-colonial resistance in Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God and Easterine Iralu’s A Naga Village Remembered: a comparative study/Nigamananda Das. 18. The contemporary voice in Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss/Shubha Mukherjee. 19. Daisy Hasan’s The To-Let House: Memory and closure/Susan Oommen. 20. Different voices: the narrative technique in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Vine of Desire/Meera Bharwani. 21. Indira Goswami’s The Man From Chinnamasta: a reading from feminist perspective/N.D. Dani. 22. Mitra Phukan’s The Collector’s Wife: Exploring from protest to insurgency/S.M. Gupta.
The present anthology entitled Contemporary Indian Women Novelists in English is a sincere attempt to evaluate some prominent literary women figures of Indian Fiction in English. It includes more than twenty critical essays on some of the latest perspectives by eminent scholars from India and abroad. The women novelists that have been focused are: Shashi Deshpande, Jhumpa Lahiri, Manju Kapur, Arundhati Roy, Shobha De, Kiran Desai, Anita Nair, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Sunetra Gupta, Rupa Bajwa, Indira Goswami, Easterine Iralu, Daisy Hasan, Mitra Phukan, etc. There are references to many other writers as well in the process of discussion.
The anthology would rove indispensable for the students of English literature and would even appeal to those interested in the fictional works of Contemporary Indian Women Novelists in English. It will undoubtedly enkindle in readers as avid interest towards their fictional works and also help them sharpen their critical understanding with its ample food for thought.
The present anthology entitled Contemporary Indian Women Novelists in English is a sincere attempt to evaluate some prominent literary women figures of Indian Fiction in English. It includes more than twenty critical essays on some of the latest perspectives by eminent scholars from India and abroad. The women novelists that have been focused are: Shashi Deshpande, Jhumpa Lahiri, Manju Kapur, Arundhati Roy, Shobha De, Kiran Desai, Anita Nair, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Sunetra Gupta, Rupa Bajwa, Indira Goswami, Easterine Iralu, Daisy Hasan, Mitra Phukan, etc. There are references to many other writers as well in the process of discussion.
The anthology would rove indispensable for the students of English literature and would even appeal to those interested in the fictional works of Contemporary Indian Women Novelists in English. It will undoubtedly enkindle in readers as avid interest towards their fictional works and also help them sharpen their critical understanding with its ample food for thought.
