This book is an intensive attempt to analyze the gendered nature of immigrant experience portrayed in the short stories of three highly acclaimed Indian American women writers—Bharati Mukherjee, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, and Jhumpa Lahiri, whose oeuvre has gone a long way to establish the visibility and acceptability of Indians in the multicultural society of the United States. Throwing critical light upon the short fiction of these writers, this book undertakes to read their work as a much-needed literary project of hope-building amidst globally looming xenophobic tendencies, and as significant milestones towards the building of a humane, integrated, transnational, and empathetic world order. Ethnographers of their own distinct cultures as well as participators in the performance of the spirit of Americanism, these writers as the book argues, not only redefine and reshape the meaning of being American in their own subjective ways, but also script ways of being empathetically human in a globalized world that must encounter, accept, acknowledge and accommodate difference at every turn.
A gold medallist from Patna University, Bihar, Professor Dr. Sunita Sinha, has been teaching in Women’s College, Samastipur, L.N. Mithila University, Bihar. She has to her credit twenty-four books which have been highly acclaimed in academic circles. Her authorial ventures are: Graham Greene: A Study of His Major Novels, Post-Colonial Women Writers: New Perspectives, Twentieth Century Literature: Emerging Trends, Rethinking Gender: Masculinity, Femininity and Queerity in Postcolonial Indian Fiction which have been published by the Atlantic Publishers & Distributors [P] Ltd., New Delhi. Her edited books are:
• New Urges in Post-Colonial Literature: Widening Horizons • Reconceiving Postcolonialism: Visions and Revisions • Postcolonial Imaginings: Fissions and Fusions • Critical Responses to Kiran Desai • New Perspectives in British Literature, Vols. 1 and 2 • Indian Booker Prize Winners: A Critical Study of their Works, Vols. 1 and 2 • Modern Literary Theory, Vols. 1 and 2 • Canons of Children’s Literature, Vols. 1 and 2 • Shakespeare: A Reappraisal, Vols. 1 and 2 • Critical Essays on D.H. Lawrence: In Honour of Dr. R.K. Sinha • Indian Women Writing in English: A Feminist Study • Feminism in Literature: Musings and Aesthetics • Feminist Approaches to Literature: Vistas and Perspectives • Exploring Feminism: Essence and Ethos • Young Adult Fiction: Issues and Trends.
She has participated in many national and international seminars and conferences and has written many scholarly papers which have been published in various national and international books and journals. Her areas of interest are Postcolonial Literature, Gender Studies, Indian, Australian, and Canadian Literature. Currently, she is the Chief Editor of three international journals, The Atlantic Review of Feminist Studies, The Atlantic Literary Review and The Atlantic Critical Review, and is also the Honorary Editor/Director for Bihar, Atlantic Publishers & Distributors [P] Ltd.
