Women Writers in the Twentieth Century Literature

The present anthology, consisting of some twenty articles of moderate length by eminent scholars at the national level, is an attempt in analysing the point of view of women as evinced in the writings of the women writers belonging to the different genres and the countries like India, America, South Africa, Canada, the other countries of the commonwealth and Africa, and also the writing branded as ‘post modernist literature’ and the ‘literature of the new modernity’. Where the emphasis is laid particularly upon the issues of identity, alienation, suppression and protest pertaining to the lot of women in the present day world, the volume stresses an usurping issue of her dominance over men, not through her sexuality but the far effective qualities of her motherhood. This volume is brought out with the trust it would throw fresh light on the approach of the researchers and make the literary critical art a pastime in excavating as well as analyzing thoughts of the modern writers on both woman and her femininity.