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Commonwealth Literature came alive in African and Asian Nations with retrospective tendency to make an assay of the circumstances that were at the time. Its rampansity is crystal clear in destruction of societal discomfiture and age old aggravations and, to reconstruct it on humanistic base. Its propensity is also found in building futuristic egalitarian society. Writers from Commonwealth Literature are imbued in dealing with problems and latest burning issues of ...
New Literatures in English coming from former colonies have occupied the centre stage in World Literatures. These could boast of a rich, diverse corpus of literatures with decolonization as defining principle. Also known as Commonwealth Literature, these writers from Africa, Canada, the Caribbean, and India have mostly dealt with the historical past reinterpreting it; with the immediate issues donning role of commentators; and with social-political upheavals ...
The book presents feminist approaches and examines themes like male domination, search for self-identity and freedom among women, sexual seduction and molestation, social suppression of marginalised women, gender-based discrimination, inter-racial and extra-racial conflicts, and language-related problems. Concerned with feminist ideas and themes, the volume takes up problems of women in contemporary times. It deals with empowerment of women, viewing treatment of ...