Critical Responses to Feminism
Contents: Preface. 1. Feminism and the romantic perspective of the text/D.S. Kaintura. 2. Male interpretation of female torture/Eami Mathew. 3. Women empowerment through Indo-Anglian literature/Ashok Kumar. 4. Feminism in India and Nayantara Sahgal\'s exile and sharpened sensibility/S.K. Yadav. 5. Distinctive feminine concerns in Kamala Das\' poems/M. Rizwan Khan. 6. Sufferings and suppressed desires of women in Shashi Deshpande\'s That Long Silence/V.K. Pandey. 7. Feminist perspectives in the novels of Anita Desai/Brajesh Kumar. 8. Anita Desai\'s aesthetics and existentialism/Gauri Shankar Jha. 9. Crossing the threshold: women in Shashi Deshpande\'s Small Remedies and Maju Kapur\'s Difficult Daughters/Malathi Mathur. 10. Feminism and gender discrimination in The God of Small Things/Amaranth Prasad. 11. The God of Small Things: politics, sex and identity of subversion/H.S. Komlesha. 12. Voice of protest and assertion: a comparative study of Githa Hariharan\'s The Thousand Faces of Night and In Times of Siege/Shubha Tripathi. 13. The emergence of new woman and clash of attitudes: a study of Mahesh Dattani\'s Tara/Manoj Kumar Mishra. 14. Feminist stance in Shobha De\'s novels/N.K. Neb. 15. Search for self and identity in the novels of Shobha De/Neeraj Kumar. 16. Centering the margins: locating black feminist theory and Praxis/Sathyaraj Venkatesn. 17. Sylvia Plath: a feminist with a difference/Ghanshyam Iyenger. 18. The Alchemy of Racism in Toni Morrison\'s beloved/Paul Dhanashekharan. 19. In pursuit of identity and spiritual survival: The Edible Woman of Margaret Atwood/Ashok Kr. Saini. 20. Dealing with motherhood: a study of Shauna Singh Baldwin\'s Naina" and Indira Goswami\'s "The Offspring"/B.B. Mohanty. 21. Modern Indian feminism: transformation yet in the offing/M.R. Khatri. Index.
"Women, the fountain source of beauty and bravery, have proved their mettle in all walks of life. The significance of their immense potential could have been confined to the margins had the world not produced reformers like Mary Woolstonecraft, Simon de Beauvoir, J.S. Mill and the likes of them. The seeds sown by these stalwarts have burgeoned forth a beautiful world to live in. The world today is full of women bringing laurels in every area. But still the rays of equality and admiration continue to spread to many dark regions where the souls of women strive for release.
The present anthology is a humble attempt to disseminate the reactions of scholars and researchers to the noble cause of awareness created by poets, dramatists, novelists and critics who accommodate the weltanschauung in their writings. This anthology is an endeavour to record the responses of scholars and bibliophiles to the views of veteran practitioners of literature delineating their viewpoints in a crass commercial and fast changing world. The twenty-one essays in this anthology are not restricted to one geographic region but they also comprise the British, American, Canadian and Russian apart from Indian writers.
It is hoped that the anthology will stimulate the budding scholars and careful readers in augmenting their thoughts to further enquiry in the field of feminism." (jacket)
