Indian Women's Short Fiction (Hardbound - 2007)

Although Indian women’s short fiction has always enjoyed equal importance and popularity as their novels, very little critical attention has been paid to it so far. Indian Women’s Short Fiction seeks to fulfil this long felt need. It puts together fifteen perceptive and analytical articles by scholars across the world. The articles, which are focussed on native Indian writing as well as diasporic short fiction, deal with such interesting literary issues as construction of femininity, disablement and enablement, Bengali heritage, hybrid identities, nostalgia, representation of the Partition violence, tradition and modernity, and cultural perspectivism.

It is hoped that the book will prove useful to scholars interested in short fiction studies in general and Indian women’s short fiction in particular.

Joel Kuortti is Adjunct Professor at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He has published widely on Indian literature in English, especially on Salman Rushdie and women novelists. His books include The Salman Rushdie Bibliography (1997), Place of the Sacred (1997), Fictions to Live In (1998), Indian Women’s Writing in English: A Bibliography (2002) and Tense Past, Tense Present (2003). His most recent research is on the diasporic writings of Indian women, postcolonial theory, and reconstruction of hybridity.

Rajeshwar Mittapali is Associate Professor of English at Kakatiya University, Warangal. He has published a number of articles and books on Indian Writing in English, African Fiction and ELT. His books include The Novels of Wole Soyinka and Indian Women Novelists and Psychoanalysis. Besides these, he has edited twenty-two volumes of critical anthologies on a variety of literary subjects. He has also been the editor of The Atlantic Literary Review, published quarterly in New Delhi, since its inception.