Table of Contents

Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Varun Gulati and Mythili Anoop
Section I
Ch 01 Herstory: Nayantara Sahgal’s Prison and Chocolate
Rachel Bari
Ch 02 Producing Nation: Gender and the Idea of India
Etienne Rassendren
Ch 03 Where is ‘home’? A Study of Taslima Nasreen’s Homecoming and Asif Currombhoy’s The Refugee
Anju Jagpal
Ch 04 Scar(r)ed Women: Reading Fictional Representations of Women Afflicted by Insurgent Conflict
Mukuta Borah
Ch 05 Caught in the Crossfire of History: Social Reality of Post-colonial India in Anita Desai’s Clear Light of Day
Pramod Kumar Das and Narayan Jena
Section II
Ch 06 Assertion of ‘Self’: A Feminist Discourse in Manju Kapur’s
Difficult Daughters and A Married Woman
Sutapa Biswas
Ch 07 Deconstructing the Stereotypes: A study of Jhuma Lahiri’s “Unaccustomed Earth” and Ismat Chugtai’s “The Quilt”
Gauri Mandapaka
Ch08 The Alienated Self: Ashima in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake
Shyamkiran Kaur, Rajinder K. Sen, and Poonam Pahuja
Ch 09 Between Silence and Scream: A Study of Violence against Women in Manjula Padmanabhan’s Lights Out
Bhavesh Kumar and Anand Mahanand
Ch 10 Negotiating with Pluralities: Race, Gender, and Ethnicity in the Writings of Shani Mootoo
Neetu Devi and Ashutosh Singh
Ch 11 Identity Crises in Namita Gokhle’s Paro: Dreams of Passion
Shalini Vohra, Mudita Agnihotri, and Meenakshi Sain
Section III
Ch 12 Psychoanalytical Study of the Selective Characters of Ladies Coupe
Anjali Verma, Prerna Jatav
Ch 13 Mahari Then and Now: Queering Performativity in Odissi
Kaustavi Sarkar
Ch 14 Sarah Aboobackar’s Sahana: A Saga of Mute Body
Ambika G. Mallya and Shashikantha Koudur
Ch 15 Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Palace of Illusions: An Écriture Féminine
Sarannya V Pillai
Index
About the Contributors

About the Author

Mythili Anoop teaches at Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management University.

Varun Gulati has taught English literature and language for ten years in colleges and universities across India.

Reviews

Contemporary Indian Women’s Writing surveys numerous English and non- English works by Indian women writers from fresh comparative perspectives, and in light of largely feminist approaches that, in some cases, also admirably challenge Western feminist habits of mind. To those unfamiliar with Indian women’s literature, this collection will serve as a helpful introduction to canonical authors, and to regions such as Orissa and Bengal that generally get short shrift in literary surveys.
*Contemporary Women's Writing*

The writing of women in today's India has come of age with this thoughtful and engaging collection. Researchers in the area need no longer feel bereft, Anoop and Gulati have given them a myriad-hued, fertile field to plow.—Deepti Gupta, Panjab University
*Deepti Gupta, Panjab University*