Virginia Woolf is the first major novelist in English who deals with what may now be termed as the ‘woman’s question.’ The book makes an assesssment of the contribution made by Virginia Woolf to the realm of English fiction, from the feminist viewpoint.
Black women’s writing has registered a phe-nomenal growth in the recent years. Lorraine Hansberry and Ntozake Shange are outstanding black women playwrights whose portraits of black life and culture are charac-terized by a vision distinctively feminine and different from that of......
The anthology makes a comprehensive sur-vey of feminism and the woman’s question in terms of contemporary literary writing in America. The focus of the book is on the Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison. There are perceptive articles on Sylvia Plath, Tennessee Williams, Adrienne......
The book discusses the boundaries and me-thodologies of Feminist Consciousness. It highlights the cultural oppressiveness of the state of motherhood with reference to the novels of Anita Desai, Kamala Markandaya, Nayantara Sahgal and Shashi Deshpande.
The book attempts a critical analysis of the poetry of three significant modern American poets Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton and Adrienne Rich from a feminist perspective. These women poets transcend the conven-tional literary and ideological norms in order to create a woman-centred......
The focus of the book is on women poets who have portrayed the struggle between tra-ditional strictures and raised feminist con-sciousness of the women today. The poets discussed are: Kamala Das, Sujata Bhatt, Mamta Kalia, Imtiaz Dharker, Suniti Namjo-shi and Eunice de Souza.
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The focus of the book is on woman as an individual. It discusses, in context of the given theme, the fiction of Anita Desai, Kamala Markandaya, Shashi Deshpande, Namita Gokhale and Suniti Namjoshi.
Studies in gender necessarily encompass its intersections with ‘race’, sexualities, ethnicity, class and whiteness. This collection explores a wide range of issues from Indigneous women’s activism, Australian Muslim women’s experiences of discrimination, the......
The book attempts a fresh and revealing comparative study of the selected works of Nayantara Sahgal and Doris Lessing from the feminist stance. Both Lessing and Sahgal depict women suffering due to sexist bias in the patriarchal society, and they envision a world which should be......
The book is a comparative study of five se-lected novels on the basis of different patterns of evolving feminist consciousness depicted in the narratives. It makes a rich contribution to the growing corpus of feminist criticism on the fiction of Anita Desai, Nayantara Sahgal,......
