Strutting Our Stuff: Sujata Sankranti's. The Warp and the Weft. Sharon Rundle. 199. PART HI: SPEAKING FOR THEMSELVES: WRITERS ON WRITING. 13. >.
DESERT IN BLOOM Contemporary Indian Women's Fiction in English
Edited by Meenakshi Bharat
Pencraft International Delhi-110052
Con tents Acknowledgements 6 Introduction 11 PART I: CRITICAL READINGS: WHAT OTHERS HAVE TQ SAY 1 Radical Self-Fashioning: Language, Culture and Identity in Anita Desai's Novels Radha Chakravarty • 23 ' 2 Men in the Minds of Women; Women Writers and Male Narrators in the Fiction of Nayantara Sahgal, Anita Desai and Githa Hariharan Jasbir Jain . . 43 3. ; 'If I cast no shadow, I do not exist.' The Relationship between Existentialism, Materialism and Feminism in the Novels of Shashi Deshpande Anrie Collette 59 .
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4 . The Heroine's Progress: Feminism and the Family in the Fiction of Shashi Deshpande, Githa Hariharan and Manjula Padmanabhan Rajeswari Sunder Raj an 80
5 In Exile/At Home: The Urban Middle Class in Shashi Deshpande Anjana Sharma 97 6 First Encounter: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Yasmine Gooneratne 111 7 When Women Laugh: Humour in Namita Gokhale, Suniti Namjoshi and Arundhati Roy Meeta Chatterjee : ; 121 8 Women, History and Fiction: Kapur's Difficult Daughters and Baldwin's What the Body Remembers Vibha S. Chauhan ; 142 9 Gender and Beyond: The Child in the Nineties' Novel in English by Indian Women Meenakshi Bharat 158 PART n : CRITICAL REVIEWS: •READING' WOMEN 10 On Her Own Terms: A Reading of Shashi Deshpande's Small Remedies Meenakshi Mukherjee 171
11 Twins and Lovers: Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things Rukmini Bhaya Nair 176 12 Strutting Our Stuff: Sujata Sankranti's The Warp and the Weft Sharon Rundle 199 PART HI: SPEAKING FOR THEMSELVES: WRITERS ON WRITING 13 Passion for India Nayantara Sahgal 205 14 Discrete Thoughts . . . Githa Hariharan 213 15 On Writing Manju Kak 217 16 Why I Have Usually Written as a Man Neelum Saran Gour 220 17 No Identity, No Self! Sujata Sankranti 223
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18 On Writing Fiction Susan Visvanathan 226 Bibliography 229 Contributors 2 3 4 •••" Index 237
