Silent Suffering and Unheard Agony in the Regional Writings on Women

Contents: Preface. Contributors. 1. The character of \'Vasantasena\' in Mrichchhakatika/K. Yedukondalu. 2. Silent suffering and unheard agony in the regional writing of women/N.S. Vishnu Priya. 3. Women voice in pre-independence Indian poets in English and Telugu Literature: a comparative approach/K.S. Godavari Sarma. 4. Dynamics of displacement: pathways of understanding/P. Shailaja. 5. The voice of woman consciousness in the poetry of Eunice De Souza/A.V.V.V. Malleswaramma. 6. Kamala Das a feminist perspective/T. Anjum. 7. Voice of woman consciousness: reflections on Gauri Deshpande/B. Janaki Devi. 8. In search of heaven in an alien land... The journey of Amrita Pritam\'s Pooro/S. Prasanna Sree. 9. Psychological and quasi -- romantic dimensions in the poetry of Kamala Das/P. Rajesekhar. 10. Echo of psycho-dynamics in the poetry of Mamta Kalia/B. Subhashini. 11. The voice of feminine sensibility in the poetry of Gauri Deshpande/B.R. Naga Valli. 12. Vasundhara\'s parallel existence: a study of G.P. Deshpande\'s A Passage to Darkness/V. Madhavi. 13. Women in theatre/R.G. Mahapati. 14. Women as icons of potentiality in Karnad\'s Hayavadana/P. Gopi Chand. 15. Invisible threads of Indian society in the Thespian World of Mahesh Dattani/Smita R. Nagori. 16. Women as figures of suffering in Dattani\'s Tara/P. Naga Suseela. 17. Siulent sufferers: a note on the women characters in the select short stories of Veena Shanteshwar/S.G. Vaidya. 18. Pratima Barua Pandey: an identity through singing/Premanka Goswami. 19. Gujarati Dalit Novel Shosh: a study in connection with the psychodynamics of women/M.B. Gaijan. 20. Struggle consciousness of women as depicted in the post independent Hindi Novels/K. Nageswara Rao. Index.

"Silent Suffering and Unheard Agony in the Regional Writings on Women is an outcome of the proceedings of the International Seminar hosted by the Department of English, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam. The theme of the Seminar was Psycho Dynamics of Women in the Post Modern Literature of the East and West. The present book is a collection of selected research papers presented at this International Seminar during 25-26 Feb 2006.

This book contains papers on the main theme of the seminar and also on the sub-themes like re-reading the Cannon of English Literature, The Women\'s Movement, the discourse of sexuality, Gender Dualism, Eco-Feminism, Black Feminism, Gyno-criticism, Voice of Woman Consciousness, Womanhood and motherhood in literature, Domestic violence, Psycho-analytical treatment of women.

The authors discussed in this volume are Meena Alexander, Eunice De Souza, Kamala Das, Gowri Desh Pande, Mamta Kalia, Girish Karnad, Mahesh Dattani, Veena Shantewara, Pratima Baruva Pandey, Daxa Damodara, Rabindranath Tarore, R.K. Narayanan, Chudamani Raghavan, Sashi Deshpande etc.       

This book will prove to be a great asset to all those research scholars, teachers and students who want to explore on women\'s issues." (jacket)