Contemporary Women's Writing in India

ISBN-13: 9781498502108 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 206 str.

Mythili Anoop; Varun Gulati; Mudita Agnihotri

Opis

The word doyennes signifies the various expressions, rapt in thought, of female/ feminine/ feminist aspects of contemporary women s writing in India, through multiple theoretical frameworks. Doyennes of the Contemporary Literary World: Dialogues on Popular Literature is an edited volume of chapters dealing with a range of issues in contemporary women s writing in India. Contemporary women s writing in India is a fertile ground for critical enquiry. There are three sections in the book Section I has five chapters, dealing with specific instances in history and historical constructions and representations of gender. Section II consists of six chapters that offer a varied spectrum of feminist critical discourse on contemporary Indian women s writing, intersecting with the frameworks of post-colonial theory, deconstruction, perspectives on race and ethnicity, and eco-feminism. Section III comprises of four chapters that touch upon the notion of the woman s body and psyche through the varied perspectives of psychoanalysis, feminism, and post-feminism."