Post-Colonial women Writers (Hardcover) | Released: 2008

In almost all the literatures of the world, the women writers are transcending the boundaries and making their presence felt on the international stage. Post-Colonial Women Writers: New Perspectives celebrates the excellence, originality and diversity in women’s writings which is rapidly flourishing in the global market and creating waves. In a single work of literary criticism, the book presents a brilliant constellation of women writers—an exemplary canon of women’s writing—drawn from New Literatures the world over. These women writers have been highly acclaimed and have also been the recipients of prestigious literary prizes. The book offers an inclusive analysis of a number of relevant post-colonial and feminist writers whose critiques open up a new set of questions related to post-colonialism and its various issues like hybridity, otherness, orientalism, multiculturalism, diaspora, globalization and feminism. Dealing with the major women writers in English across centuries and spaces, the book aims at fascinating the readers with a broad spectrum of perspectives which have much contemporary relevance in the arena of post-colonialism today. It will undoubtedly prove valuable to students, researchers and teachers of English Literature.

Table of Contents:
Foreword; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Jane Austen: Reassessing Jane Austen: ‘The Unlikely Feminist’; 3. Doris Lessing: ‘The Real and Imagined Worlds’ in Doris Lessing’s Fiction; 4. Toni Morrison: Toni Morrison’s Love—‘An Epic of Enslavement and Liberation’; 5. Margaret Laurence: The Theme of Self-Definition in Margaret Laurence’s ‘Manawaka Women’; 6. Nadine Gordimer: A Post-Colonial Study of ‘Racism and the Realm of the Other’ in Nadine Gordimer’s Fiction; 7. Margaret Atwood: Atwood’s Fiction: ‘A Barometer of Feminist Thought’; 8. Inez Baranay: ‘In Search of an Authentic Moment’: An Ecofeministic Reading of Inez Baranay’s Neem Dreams; 9. Alice Munro: ‘Exploration of Womanhood and the Affirmation of Self’ in the Writings of Alice Munro; 10. Kiran Desai: ‘From Comic Eccentricity to Post-colonial despair’ in Kiran Desai’s Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard and The Inheritance of Loss; 11. Anita Nair: ‘Journey of Self Discovery’ in Anita Nair’s Ladies Coupe; 12. Manju Kapur: ‘Discovery of Daring and Desire’ in Manju Kapur’s Fiction; 13. Shashi Deshpande: ‘Seeking the Self’ in Shashi Deshpande’s That Long Silence; 14. Jhumpa Lahiri: ‘The Sense of Exile, Alienation and Assimilation’ in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Fiction; 15. Bapsi Sidhwa and Taslima Nasrin: ‘Changing Images of Women’ in the Fiction of Bapsi Sidhwa and Taslima Nasrin; 16. Anita Desai: ‘Delineation of Inner Spaces and the Angst Within’ in Anita Desai’s Fiction; 17. Nayantara Sahgal: ‘Paradigms of Feminist Statement’ in the Novels of Nayantara Sahgal; 18. Monica Ali: ‘The Immigrant’s Voyage’ in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane; 19. Bapsi Sidhwa: ‘Emerging Gender Identities’ in Bapsi Sidhwa’s Fiction; 20. Tehmina Durrani: ‘Triumph of the Human Spirit’ in Tehmina Durrani’s My Feudal Lord