Women on Women : Indian Women Writers Perspectives on Women
Contents: Acknowledgement. Preface. 1. Her voice around the globe: the dominance of female writers in the literature of the Indian post-diaspora/Elisabeth Dambock. 2. The beauty of details: intercultural rewriting of omnipotent narrative tradition in Jhumpa Lahiri\'s The Namesake/Edit Zsadanyi. 3. Craftsmanship, ideology and reader appeal in Climbing the Stairs/Steven T. Bickmore. 4. Caught between the promise of America and old-world dutifulness? : postmodern identity politics in Bharati Mukherjee\'s Jasmine/Ladislava Khailova. 5. Transformation, assimilation and reincarnation: multiple identities in Bharati Mukherjee\'s Jasmine/Shamika Mitchell. 6. Female same-sex desire in Sukthankar\'s Facing the Mirror, Manju Kapur\'s A Married Woman and Deepa Mehta\'s Fire/Mark Wadman. 7. A question of real love in Ismat Chughtai\'s The Crooked Line/Jillian Canode. 8. Nair\'s women speak out/Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar. 9. From a Time for Milk : motherhood and madness in Clear Light of Day/Jiena Sun. 10. Delineation of inner subtlety of woman\'s mind in Manju Kapur\'s A Married Woman/Indu Swami. 11. Mridula Garg\'s Chittcobra : a psycho-philosophical critique of feminine consciousness/Beena Agarwal.
"Women\'s writing has become the focus of academic discourse in present times. There are books on women in Indian English literature and there are books on Indian literature in translation but there is not yet a book that foregrounds women in Indian writing by women. Connoisseurs of literature, researchers working in the field of Indian literatures, postcolonial literature, gender and sexuality studies, and women\'s literature will find it a useful book." (jacket)
