The Woman Question in the Contemporary Indian Women Writings in English
Contents: Preface. 1. The woman question: perspectives and challenges/Indu Swami. 2. Stairway to the stars: women writing in contemporary Indian English Fiction/Anita Singh. 3. The woman question in Shashi Deshpande\'s novels/Sapna Rani and Melva Pope. 4. ISolated and alienated world of women in Kiran Desai\'s The inheritance of Loss/Barnali Dutta. 5. Quest for the F-planet by Umas and Kuttys/Shubho Ray. 6. An examination of multiple consciousness and the process of identity formation in the selected novels of Bharati Mukherjee/Aparajita Ray. 7. Indian woman\'s quest for enlightenment and autonomy/Masoumeh M. Moradi. 8. Surveillance of the lost Goddesses: a study of the female characters in Arundhati Roy\'s The God of Small Things and Kiran Desai\'s The Inheritance of Loss/Santoshi Bhawani Mishra. 9. Manju Kapur\'s Home: an oriental answer to the woman question/Meenu Gupta. 10.Githia Hariharan\'s When Dreams Travel: a Feminist/postmodern metafictional perspective/Rahul Chaturvedi. 11. Different voices: the narrative technique in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni\'s The Vine of Desire/Meera Bharwani. 12. Prism of change: a study of Mallika Sarabhai\'s In Search of The Goddess/Shreyasee Datta. 13. Motherhood: not the only star in the Horizon! Delineation of Mothers in Anita Desai\'s Where shall we go this summer? and fasting, feasting/Aparna Goswami and Bhaskar Jyoti Goswami. 14. Feminist sensibility and the plays of Manjula Padmanabhan: a study in \'Stream-of-Subversiveness\'/Shyam Babu. 15. Pomo in mistress/Rakesh Saraswat. 16. Writing as revision in The God of Small Things/Wern Mei Yong. 17. Brides are not for burning: an Anagnorsis of A radical heroine/Praggnaparamita Biswas. 18. Suniti Namjoshi\'s The Mothers of Maya Diip: Writing in feminist Utopia/Bindu Singh. 19. Exploring the secrets of the human heart in Jhumpa Lahiri\'s Unaccustomed earth/A.J. Sebastian sdb. 20. Examining the Dharma Driven identity and agency of Hindu women: the Mahabharata\'s Kunti/Shweta Singh. 21. Ethnoecology, women\'s predicaments and the idea of evil in select fictional works of Mamang Dai, Indira Goswami and Temsula Ao/Nigamananda Das. 22. Equity of participation: a study on Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hosain\'s concern for women and Muslim society/Neerja Arun.
"The present anthology is a pioneering attempt to explore "The Woman Question" raised by Contemporary Indian English Women writers including novelists, dramatists and poets who have enriched the realm of letters. It includes more than twenty critical essays on the myriad aspects of the woman question by eminent scholars from India and abroad.
The anthology would surely serve as a valuable source book for those who are working for the women\'s cause, policymakers as well as for the writers, scholars, teachers, academicians and readers who want to be fully acquainted with the works of contemporary Indian women writings in English. It will undoubtedly help them sharpen their critical understanding with its ample food for thought." (jacket)
