This collection of twenty essays dealing with a wide variety of authors and texts concerntrates on the concept of Self. The applied to Western as well as Indian Literatures. Thus, British writers like Shakespeare. Aldons Huxley, Christopher Isherwood and American writers like Emerson. Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor are discussed in this context. The works of Indian writers in English like Raja Rao and R. Parthasarathy and the Bengali writer Mahashweta Devi are ...
This selection of fifteen stories by five exceptional Bengali women writers looks at the lives of women who are neither stars nor martyrs in the feminist cause: The are voices, individual and particular, of women leading their everyday lives, nursing their joys and sorrows. These women write out of their bodies and the intimate spaces around them; they write the history and mathematics of their lives; they compose deeper reality; they give us an atmosphere, a ...