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About the Book:

This book is an attempt to grasp and interpret the writings of some of the contemporary women writers by focusing on their responses to questions pertaining to women's identity. These novelists belong to different countries and races, but the commonality of the issues they have raised in their writings underscores the existence of a universal feminine urge to self-actualize by transcending the gender-related constraints. The book concentrates on how these fictionists have tried to focus on the women's journey to autonomous selfhood, meandering through various obstacles, without limiting itself to any particular critical approach. It is hoped that it shall be of some use to scholars in understanding the various dimensions of some basic feminist issues.






Contents:

Acknowledgements
Preface
1 . The Feminine Perspective in Virginia Woolf
2 . Justifying Sethe's Act in Toni Morrison's Beloved
3 . Self-Realization and Search for Identity in Alice Walker's The Color Purple
4 . Gender Stereotypes and Affirmation of Self in Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women
5 . Mothers Can't Be Lovers: Patterns of Traditional Male Behaviour in Anita Qesai's Voices in the City
6. Images of Indian Woman in Shashi Deshpande'sThaf Long Silence: Stereotypes, Myths and Realities
7. Suffering and Desire in Shashi Deshpande's Small Remedies
8. The Dark Holds No Terror. A Story of the Mother-Daughter Relationship
9. Namita Gokhale's Paro: A Tale of Two Ladies
10 . Nine Sketches Interpreting Human Maladies: An Assessment of Jhumpa Lahiri's Short Stories
11 . Mapping the Socio-Feminine Consciousness: A Critique of The River Churning
12. Self and Society: Sunita Jain's A Girl of Her Age
Index

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