• ISBN13: 9788126931101
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: June 15, 2020
• Pages: 216
• Original Price: INR 795.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 330 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): General

Women Writers in the Twentieth Century Literature, an anthology consisting of twenty articles by eminent scholars, is an attempt to analyse the points of view of women as evinced in the writings of the women writers belonging to the different genres and the countries such as India, America, Canada, South Africa, Africa, and various Commonwealth countries; and also the writings branded as “post-modernist literature” and the “literature of the new modernity”. Eminent women writers discussed in this anthology include Bessie Emery Head, Toni Morrison, Shashi Deshpande, Katherine Anne Porter, Bharathi Mukherjee, Taslima Nasreen, Anita Desai, Joy Macpherson, Arundhati Roy, Dina Mehta, and Meher Pestonji. All the articles included in this anthology focus on the issues of identity, alienation, suppression and protest, pertaining to the lot of women in the present-day world. The book stresses on the issue of woman’s dominance over man, not through her sexuality but the far effective qualities of her motherhood.

Prof. Monika Gupta, M.A. (English), Ph.D., teaches at the Department of English, Modern European and Other Foreign Languages, H.N.B. Garhwal University (A Central University), Srinagar (Garhwal), Uttarakhand. Her area of specialization is Black Women Writers, and her areas of interest are American Literature, African-American Literature, and Women’s Studies. Her critical articles and papers have appeared in several reputed journals and Indian publications. Prof. Gupta is also the Head of Anti-Discrimination Cell of her university. She has also written a book entitled The Plays of Eugene O’Neill: A Critical Study.

• Preface
• Contributors
• 1. Bessie Head: The ‘New African’ and her “The Deep River”
• Prof. S.S. Deo
• 2. Fictional Concerns in Meher Pestonji’s Stories
• Prof. R.S. Pathak
• 3. Dina Mehta: No Rushdie’s Child
• Prof. A.K. Tripathy
• 4. A River Sutra: A Gyno-Ecological Perspective
• Prof. M.K. Ray
• 5. Setting the Scale Straight: Socio-Political Concerns in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things
• Prof. A.N. Dwivedi
• 6. Pathways to Survival: Disintegration versus Stability in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye
• Prof. Urmila Chakraborty
• 7. Growth of Canadian Poetry and Jay Macpherson: A Note
• Dr. Shrawan K. Sharma
• 8. Feminism in Post-Colonial Discourse: A Subversive Manoeuvre
• Dr. Rama Kundu
• 9. Ethnicity in America: Contemporary Women Poets
• Dr. Shikha Mishra
• 10. Erotica and Transcendence: A Study of Anita Desai’s Heroines
• Dr. A.H. Tak
• 11. Voices of Caribbean Women Poets in Canadian Poetry
• Dr. Bharati A. Parikh
• 12. Gender and Ethnicity in the Plays of Chinese-American and Japanese-American Women
• Dr. Subulaxmi Sundaram
• 13. Quest for Self and the Immigrant Experience in Bharti Mukherjee’s Fiction
• Dr. Pradeep Trikha
• 14. Taslima Nasreen’s Lajja: A Study
• Dr. S.P. Swain
• 15. Paro: A Tale of Two Ladies
• Dr. Rashmi Gaur
• 16. Productive Imagination in Toni Morrison’s Paradise
• Shruti Das
• 17. Bharathi Mukherjee’s Wife: A Post Modernist Novel
• Dr. Mallikarjun Patil
• 18. Affirmation and Denial
• The Art of Balancing: An Examination of the Fiction of Katherine Anne Porter
• Dr. Susmita Banerjee
• 19. “Parenthood Makes You Vulnerable”: The Concept of Motherhood in Shashi Deshpande’s Binding Vine
• Dr. Rashmi Gaur and Pallavi
• 20. Racial Sensuality and Gender Identity in Toni Morrison’s Sula
• Dr. Monika Gupta