Indian Women Writing in English : New Perspectives
Contents: Preface. 1. The keynote address. 2. Identity crisis--a concept in Indian women novelists. 3. Psychological exploration of inner mind of Indian women: a feminist perspective. 4. Quest for identity in Modern Indian women poets in English (with special reference to Suniti Namjoshi). 5. "Women of the West" -- in Indian women writing in English--a general perspective. 6. Dialectics of society and self in Ruth Prawer Jhabvala\'s The Householder. 7. Gender consciousness in Kamala Markandya\'s Nectar in Sieve. 8. Violence and loneliness in Nayantara Sahgal\'s Major novels. 9. The disintegration of the family as the theme of Anita Desai\'s novels. 10. Shashi Deshpande\'s The Binding Vine. 11. Shashi Deshpande\'s A Matter of Time: A search for identity and culture. 12. Theme of sisterhood in Shanta Gokhale\'s Rita Welinkar, Shashi Deshpande\'s A matter of time and Shobha De\'s sisters. 13. Arundhati Roy\'s The God of Small Things: a novel of psycho-analytical treatment. 14. Man through a woman\'s eye (I) a study of men in Arundhati Roys: the God of Small Things. 15. The God of Small Things: A multi-dimensional view of reality. 16. Ammu\'s life: Betwixed between small beliefs and big betrayals of fate and time: some reflections on Arundhati Roy\'s -- The God of Small Things. 17. Conflict and modernity. 18. Difficult daughters: travails in self identity. 19. Women in interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri. 20. Compromise of confrontation?: dislocated self as reflected in Jhumpa Lahiri\'s The Namesake. 21. Man in the final continent. 22. Sharpened Sensibility in an Exiled woman novelist: a study of Bharati Mukherjee. 23. Dynamics of social change and gender perception in Attia Hosain\'s Sunlight on a broken column. 24. "Human relationships" in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni\'s Short stories--a study. Index.
"Indian Woman Writing in English: New Perspectives is a collection of more than twenty research papers presented at the seminar hosted by Andhra University, Vishakhapatnam. The book has also included a scholarly keynote address of Shashi Deshpande, a great Modern Indian woman novelist in English. All the papers of this book contain various themes of Indian writing in English such as feminist politics in Indian context, identity and culture, gender consciousness, exiled and sharpened sensibility, delineation of man, identity crisis etc.
The book, it is hoped, will prove to be a great asset to all those research scholars, teachers and students who want to have new perspective of Indian woman writers in English." (jacket)
