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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 under-scores the existence of a universal feminine urge to self-actualize by transcending the gender-related constraints. The book concentrates on how these ...
Anantha Murthy is one of India's major contemporary writers, whose works have received international acclaim. He has won the prestigious Sahitya Akademi (Academy of Letters) prize for his novel Samskara as also the foremost literary award, the Jnanpeeth (1995). In his writing, he questions the hegemonical structures imposed on us by societal traditions. In Samskara, a modern classic novel, he has skillfully portrayed Brahmin-Dalit conflict, problems of ...