• ISBN13: 9788126924714
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: June 15, 2017
• Pages: 184
• Original Price: INR 695.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 396 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): N/A

Feminist Approaches to Literature: Vistas and Perspectives offers an edited collection of discourses, which are specifically feminist in content, showcasing major strands of contemporary feminist analysis. Instead of trying to be rigid regarding the nature of feminism or feminisms, this book offers some new thoughts on the various directions of feminism which might be apparent in the future. In doing so, the articles differ from the more traditionally accepted form of feminism—feminism which was, and feminism which is today, and imagine methods in which feminism can be related to other academic fields in an increasingly globalized world. The scholarly essays probe the relationship of the feminist paradigm to fields like humanism, literature and psychology, and exhibit that the future of feminism is not fractured, but all-encompassing. Thus, the seventeen essays in the anthology will prove very relevant to the students and researchers of English Literature.

A gold medallist from Patna University, Bihar, Dr. Sunita Sinha, has been teaching as an Associate Professor in English in Women’s College, Samastipur, L.N. Mithila University, Bihar. She has to her credit twenty books which have been highly acclaimed in academic circles. Her authorial ventures are: Graham Greene: A Study of His Major Novels, Postcolonial Women Writers: New Perspectives, Twentieth Century Literature: Emerging Trends, and 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 Postcolonial 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, and Indian Women Writing in English: A Feminist Study. 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 editing 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 of Atlantic Publishers & Distributors [P] Ltd. for Bihar.

• Preface
• Contributors
• 1. George Eliot: A Scandalous Life, A Spurious Name 1
• Nitin Luthra
• 2. A Comely Girl with a Man’s Courage: Skelton, Chaucer, and the Poetics of Self, Gender, and Class Mobility
• Jeffery Moser
• 3. Cinema and the Myth of the Devi: The Avenging Women
• Alessandro Monti
• 4. Witness the Night: A Gothic Tale and the Demonic Male
• Carole Rozzonelli
• 5. Formation of Identity: Persona, Perspective and the Meaning of Elvira Done’s Hana
• Enkelena Shockett
• 6. Saadat Hasan Manto: Voice of the Used, Abused and the Maligned
• N. Sharada Iyer
• 7. Sudha Murty’s Mahashweta: Exploring the Paradoxes of Female Psyche
• Beena Agarwal
• 8. Aphra Behn, the First Professional Woman Writer
• Joyashri Choudhury
• 9. Gynotext and Multiple Layers of Marginalization in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things
• Sofikul Islam
• 10. Treatment of the Plight of Women in the Plays of Mahesh Dattani
• Parvez Akhtar
• 11. Black Women Writers and the Canon of Commitment
• Mahima Singh
• 12. Victorian Women: Without a Room of their Own
• Mehar Fatima
• 13. Feminist Agency in Anita Nair’s Ladies Coupe
• Binod Kumar Roy
• 14. The Confessional Code in Sylvia Plath: A Reading of The Bell Jar
• Shyamsunder Padihari
• 15. Conflicting Identities and Diasporic Representation in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane and Meera Syal’s Anita and Me
• Sanjay Kumar Sinha
• 16. Lived Experiences of Women versus Feminist Discourses: A Study of Select Representation
• Supriya Hazarika
• 17. Redefining Feminine Aesthetics in the Poetry of Kamala Das
• Vinay Kumar