Cabbages on the Bloom is a collection of articles on sub-continental women writers. The anthology addresses the voices of sub-continental women writers and records the views and analysis of scholars working in different colleges and universities. Divided into two volumes, the book aims at delineating the position of women in the light of several changes making way. The image of women records a marked change during the last decades-from the portrayal of enduring women to conflicting individuals in search of an identity and a space of their own. Women writers not only re-interpret mythology by using new symbols and subverting the canonical versions but also exhibit the panorama of multiculturalism, alienation, displacement of the self and the quest for identity.
As India approached its freedom, the writers, too, shifted their lanterns towards nationalism and heroism. Apart from male writers, the women writers, though, fewer in number, also contributed their mite to the literary corpus of sub continental writings. Kamala Markandaya, Ruth Prawar Jhabwala, Shashi Deshpande, Rama Mehta are some sparkling minds which paved way for the contemporary women writers of the subcontinent. The fire and aggression displayed by writers like Anita Desai, Jhumpa Lahiri, Bapsi Sidhwa, Taslima Nasreen and many Diasporic writers enabled them to qualify for a respectable niche in the world of sub-continental writers.
The present volume comprises articles on the writings of Bharati Mukherjee, Kamala Deshpande, Anita Desai, Nayantara Sahgal Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai, Bapsi Sidhwa, Monica Ali, and Jhumpa Lahiri etc. The articles selected for both the volumes provide a creative, critical and comparative study to help the budding researchers, literary lovers and acolytes to augment their critical sparks further.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Binod Mishra
Binod Mishra (1966) did his Honours (1989) and M.A. (1991) in English Literature from LNMU, Darbhanga. He was awarded Ph.D. in English on Mulk Raj Anand from the same university in 1998. Dr. Mishra has over ten years of teaching experience both at college and university levels. He started his career as a lecturer in English in February 1995 and was the Head, (Department of English) in Rangachachi College, Majuli, Assam, for five years. He received UGC Minor Research Project on the topic "Journey from Innocence to Experience in major Indo-Anglian Novelists". He has attended various conferences, seminars and workshops of National and International standards. He has also contributed his articles extensively to various journals and, anthologies on fiction and poetry. Apart from his critical writings, he has a good number of poems published both in English and Hindi. His areas of interest, include Indian Writing in english, Modern Fiction, and Modern Peotry and Criticism. Besides his keen interest in literature, he is actively involved in carrying, out research in the areas of Technical and communication English. Dr. Mishra is a Life Member of All India Association of English Studies. He is also a member of All India Studies in contemporry Literature. Since October 2000-Dr. Mishra has been an Assistant Professor, languages Group in Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, (Raj.) He is also the co-editor of BITSCAN-Semester News, a bi-annual newsletter published from the institute. He has also co-edited proceedings of National Seminar on Communication, held in October, 2004 and released in the form of a book " Communicating at Work: Shifting Paradigm and Emerging Trends'
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Kalpana Purohit
Kalpana Purohit is Professor in the Department of English at Jai Narain Vyas University, Jodhpur. Her earlier stint as the Head of the Department, Birla Institute Mumbai and the first Coordinator of Communicative English, mumbai University sponsored by UGC reflected her administrative acumen. A member of several academic forums, Editorial Boards and an active researcher, she has extensively published articles in journals of national and international repute. She has published books on D.H. Lawrence, Absurd theatre and Literature for Children. A widely travelled person, she has also presented several papers at seminars and conferences and actively engaged in supervising Ph. D Scholars. Her areas of interest are American Drama, British Short Stories, Post Colonial Literature, Comparative Literature, Women's Studies, Media and Communication, French Studies. She is a recipient of prestigious Hira Lal Shastri Award for Women Education.
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