Indian Women Writing in English: New Perspectives in a collection of more than twenty research papers presented at the seminar hosted by Andhra University, Vishakhapatnam. The book has also included a scholarly keynote address of Shashi Deshpande, a great modern Indian woman novelist in English. All the papers of this book contain various themes of Indian writing in English such as Feminist Politics in Indian context, identity and culture, gender consciousness, exiled and sharpened sensibility, delineation of Man, identity crisis etc. The authors discussed in this volume are Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Kamala Markandaya, Nayantara Sahgal, Anita, Desia, Shashi Deshpande, Arundhati Roy, Manju Kapoor, Jhumpa Lahiri, Bharati Mukherjee, Attia Hosain and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. The book, it is hoped, will prove to be a great asset to all those research scholars, teachers and students who want to have new perspective of Indian woman writers in English.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR S. Prasanna Sree
Dr. S Prasanna Sree is an Associate, Professor, in the Department of English, Andhra University, Vishakhapatnam. Earlier she was at Sri Padmavathi Mahila Viswa Vidyalayam, Tirupathi as Associate Professor, in the department of English (1987-2000). She has co-authored a book titled English for Career Development as a part of her team work project under ODA's Sponsorship with the University of Manchester, U.K. She is a scholar, critic and a poet. Her poetic career began with the publication of her first volume of poems in 1990 under the title Time's Test and Other Poems. Her second volume was brought out in 1992 with the title Ripples on Still Water, Misty Magma another collection of poems in 1999. Her latest collection of poems is entitled as Whispers Within, published in 2002. She has participated and presented papers in various National and International seminars and has published articles in the field of Indian Writing in English, Canadian Literature, Black Literature, Common wealth Literature. She is an active member in various National and International academic, cultural, social organizations.
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