Indian Women Writers: Critical Perspectives

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"Indian Women Writers : Critical Perspectives is a collection of essays on some of the prominent women writers in India. The novelists whose works discussed in the volume include Kamala Markandaya, Anita Desai, Gita Mehta, Nayantara Sahagal, Arundhati Roy, Ashapurna Devi and Kundanika Kapadia. The contributors to the volume are Prof. Jaydipsinh Dodiya, Dr. K.V. Surendran, Dr. Gajendra Kumar, Dr. P.D. Dubbe, Dr. Purnima Mehta, Twinkle B. Manavar, Ramesh Kumar Gupta, Dr. Krishna Dayal Sharma, Dr. M. Narendra, Dr. G.D. Barche, Dr. N.V. Raveendran, Dr. Nalini J. Thampi, Dr. Savita Goel, Dr. A.R. Shukla, Sheetal Y. Thakore, Dr. Indira Nityanandan and Dr. K. Ratna Shiela Mani. At a time when Indian writing in English and in translation are getting more focus than ever before, this volume, it is hoped, will be of tremendous use to the students who pursue research on Indian authors in particular and the academic community in general."

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jaydipsinh K. Dodiya

Jaydipsinh Dodiya teaches at Surekhaben Hasmukhbhai Gardi Department of English and comparative literary studies, Saurashtra University, Rajkot (Gujarat). He has edited some books on Indian writing in English. His publications include The Plays of Girish Karnad, The Fiction of Shobha De, Critical Perspectives on Indian English Poetry, The Fiction of Rohinton Mistry, The Fiction of Anita Desai etc. Indian English fiction is the area of his special interest. Currently he is working on a project with a focus on Parsi novelists Rohinton Mistry, Bapsi Sidhwa, Firdaus Kanga and Famikh Dhondy. Recently, he visited Sri Lanka, Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia in connection with his academic pursuits.