Indian Women
Novelists in English: Art and Vision
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FOREWORD
Women’s
intense quest for identity and freedom figures large in the variegated essays
in this anthology. From the chronologically first acclaimed to the later
acclaimed literary women artists of the story telling art, independence from
fetters imposed by society and self make an impact.
It is
rather significant that women writers of the subcontinent, some in diaspora,
feature totally in this anthology. The angst of separation, dual themes of
alienation and self-discovery, cultural and geographical standpoints and
building up of identity, questions of patriarchy’s domination and feminist
ideology – all the trauma and overcoming of the trauma are contained in the
essays of renowned women writers Indian or of Indian descent.
Shri
Dipak Giri’s initiative in finding out this anthology of select critical essays
by scholars (thankfully unfettered by rank or age as scholars really should
be!) is a welcome addition to a growing rank of critical writings on known and
still quite unknown arenas of literature and literati.
The
eternal interlinking of society, language and literature, in defining human
experience, has found voices, variegated, in each and every essay here. In this
anthology, that deals primarily with the nuances of life and their treatment by
women, the novelists’ and the woman’s ‘gaze’ coincide in a powerful manner.
Shri
Giri has rendered a timely and remarkable service as an academician in
compiling these essays on women of letters and their influence on the present
ambience in Indo-Anglican literature today.
Soma Banerjee
Professor
Department of English
Rabindra Bharati University
West Bengal
CONTENTS
Foreword
Introduction
1.
Representing Gender
Identity and Patriarchy in Anita Desai’s Novel Fasting, Feasting –Dr.
Shachi Sood & Yasmeena Jan
2.
From Resistance to
Reconciliation in Shashi Deshpande’s That
Long Silence -Dr. S. Mahalakshmi
3.
An Eco-critical
Re-reading of Sarah Joseph’s The Vigil (Oorukaval) -Chithra Mohan
4.
Meena Alexander’s Manhattan
Music and Nampally Road: A
Discourse in Feminine Proximity -Dr. T. Sasikanth Reddy
5.
Arise, Awake and Stop
Not Till the Goal is Achieved: A Reading of Anita Nair’s Ladies Coupe -Anmona
Bora
6.
Postcolonial Diasporic
Dilemmas Depicted in Inheritance of Loss
by Kiran Desai -Achyut Tilavat
7.
From Alienation to Self Realization: Highlighting the Theme of
Identity Crisis in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The
Namesake -Samiksha Sharma
8.
Cultural Alienation and
Loss of Identity in Jumpa Lahiri’s Novel The
Namesake -Naseer ud-din Sofi
9.
Terribly Victimised
Gender of Kashmir Conflict: A Women-centric Perspective of Nayeema Mahjoor’s
Novel Lost in Terror -Mohd Nageen Rather
10. Githa
Hariharan’s The Thousand Faces of Night:
A Study of Women’s Quest for Freedom -Mohd
Ishaq Bhat
11. The
Subterranean Ridges of Sibling Relationship in Chitra Banerjee Divyakaruni’s
Novels -Arunita Samaddar
12. From
Self-alienation to Self- discovery: A Woman’s Journey in Shashi Deshpande’s That Long Silence – Dr. Vishali Sharma
13. Enquiring the Disputed History: Reading Qurratulain Hyder’s River of Fire through Lenses of Time and Definitive Courses of
Indian Subcontinent -Suchitra Singh
14. Idea
of Feminism and Untouchability: A Close Study of Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things -Santanu Panda
15. The
Perpetual Dilemma of a Transplanted Woman: A Study of Jhumpa Lahiri’s The
Namesake -Jayasree Jayagopal
16. Unfolding
Existentialism in the Works of Jhumpa Lahiri -Ragini Kapoor
17. Cross-bordered
Narratives: Sense of Alienation in Selected Novels of Anita Desai -Ankita Jha
18. Reviewing
the Writings
of Anita Desai -Dr. Joydeep Pal
19. Unveiling
the Myth of Independence in Mahasweta Devi’s Douloti, the Bountiful, The Hunt and Mother of 1084 -Indrani Choudhuri
20. Can
the Centre Hold? - A Depiction of the Broken Relationships in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things -Saurabh Debnath
21. Reconstructing
the Social Position of Woman as Human: A Study of Manju Kapur’s Select Novels -Tinku Das
22. Queer
Relationships in the novels of Shobhaa De: A Comparative Study between Strange Obsession and Starry Nights -Rabindra Sutradhar
23.
Cultural Hegemony in
Rita Garg's An Abbreviated Child: An
Marxist Overview -
Dr.
Pinki Arora
24.
Idealizing Consummate
Heterosexual Love against Romantic Lesbian Love through Various Forms of Love Relationship:
A Study of Rita Garg’s Precursor of Love
from the Perspective of Sternberg’s Triangular Theory of Love -Dipak Giri
NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS
1.
Dr.
Shachi Sood is an Assistant Professor,
Department of English, Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University, Rajouri (J&K).
2. Yasmeena Jan
is a Research Scholar, Department of English, Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah
University, Rajouri, J&K.
3. Dr. S. Mahalakshmi
is an Assistant Professor, Department of English, Arulmigu Palaniandaver
College of Arts and Culture, Palani, Tamil Nadu
4. Chithra Mohan
is an Assistant Professor, Department of English,
HHMSPBNSS
College for Women, Neeramankara, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
5.
Dr.
T. Sasikanth Reddy is a Lecturer in
English, S.C.N.R. Govt. Degree College, Proddatur Town, YSR Dist., Andhra
Pradesh.
6. Anmona Bora
is a Vice Principal, JB College (Autonomous), Jorhat, Assam. She was formerly
Head and Associate Professor in the same college.
7.
Achyut
Tilavat is an Assistant Professor, Department
of English, Diu Government College, Diu, Gujarat. He was formerly a Visiting
Lecturer, Department of English, S.M.T. Dhamsaniya Commerce College, Rajkot,
Gujarat.
8.
Samiksha
Sharma is a Research Scholar, Department of
English, Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University, Rajouri, J&K.
9.
Naseer
ud-din Sofi is a Ph.D. Research Scholar,
Department of English literature and Society, Jaipur National University,
Rajasthan.
10.
Mohd
Nageen Rather is an Assistant Professor
(Contract) , Department of English, Islamic University of Science and
Technology (IUST), Awantipora, Kashmir
11. Mohd Ishaq Bhat is
a Ph.D. Research Scholar, Department
of English, University of Kashmir, Hazratbal, Srinagar, J & K.
12. Arunita Samaddar
is currently a part of the prestigious residential fellowship programme called
Young India Fellowship. Prior to this she was an M.Phil. Research Scholar at
Jadavpur University, West Bengal.
13.
Dr.
Vishali Sharma is a Ph.D. Awardee, Department of English, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi
University, Katra, J&K.
14. Suchitra
Singh is a Post
Graduate Student, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (Main Campus),
Dwarka Sector 16-C, New Delhi.
15.
Santanu
Panda is a Post Graduate Student, Department of English, Sidho-Kanho-Birsha
University, Purulia, West Bengal.
16.
Jayasree
Jayagopal is a Postgraduate, Department of
English, Little Flower College Guruvayur, Kerala. She was formerly a Guest
Lecturer, Little Flower College, Guruvayur, Kerala.
17.
Ragini
Kapoor is a Ph. D. Research Scholar,
Department of Modern Indian Languages and Literary Studies, Delhi University,
New Delhi.
18.
Ankita
Jha works at Nibedita English Medium School,
Cooch Behar, West Bengal.
19.
Dr.
Joydeep Pal is an Approved Part Time Lecturer,
Department of History, Sukanta Mahavidyalaya, Dhupguri, Jalpaiguri, West
Bengal
20.
Indrani Choudhuri is
a Ph. D. Research Scholar, Department of English, Raiganj University, Raiganj,
Uttar Dinajpur (W.B.).
21.
Saurabh
Debnath is an Assistant Teacher, Pundibari
Ramgopal Lakhotia High School, Cooch Behar, West Bengal. He is an Academic
Counsellor, Netaji Subhash Open University, Cooch Behar College Study Centre,
Cooch Behar, West Bengal.
22.
Tinku
Das is an Assistant Teacher, Uttar
Khapaidanga High School, Cooch Behar, West Bengal. He is an Academic
Counsellor, Netaji Subhash Open University, Cooch Behar College Study Centre,
Cooch Behar, West Bengal.
23.
Rabindra
Sutradhar is an Assistant Teacher, Khirerkote High
School (H.S.), Alipurduar, West Bengal.
24.
Dr.Pinki Arora is presently Chairperson, South Atlantic
Modern Language Association, Georgia State University, Atlanta, United States
along with the member of the F Scott Fitzgerald Society, Minneapolis, United
States.
25.
Dipak Giri is an Assistant
Teacher, Katamari High School (H.S.), Cooch Behar, West Bengal and a Ph. D.
Research Scholar, Raiganj University, Raiganj, Uttar Dinajpur, West Bengal.
Besides he is an Academic Counsellor, Netaji Subhas Open University, Cooch
Behar College Study Centre, Cooch Behar, West Bengal.