Publisher's Synopsis
The book is a critical anthology of researches in the field of the postcolonial women's question, which has always been a site of proliferating debates defying closure. The book delves into the gender question, its nature, and the social, political, psychological and existential effects, as studied in the texts of Kamala Markandaya, Anita Desai, Shashi Deshpande and Nayantara Sahgal. The relationships between caste, class and gender have been explored in the narratives of Arundhati Roy and Sivakami, while themes of diaspora, dislocation and identity are studied in Bharati Mukherjee, Jhympa Lahiri and Kiran Desai. The other important themes discussed are Mother-Daughter relationship, Partition and Women, Same-sex Love relation and the emerging Chick-Lit novels dealing with young, independent, working city women.
