Feminism in South Asia has expanded beyond the customary debates about the silencing and objectification of women and their confinement to domesticity and the reproductive role.
The stories in this anthology situate gender in relation to a host of contemporary issues, such as caste, class, community, creativity, work, globalisation, environment, technology, nation, politics and the body.
This volume contains writing by men and women from different South Asian countries. Encompassing multiple perspectives, languages and narrative approaches, the stories represent the cultural and linguistic diversity of the South Asian region.
The stories also help in highlighting overlapping concerns and the need to evolve greater mutual understanding among the people of the region. Together, these narratives reaffirm the role that literary texts can play in envisioning a more tolerant and harmonious world.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Radha Chakravarty
RADHA CHAKRAVARTY is a Reader in English at Gargi College (University of Delhi). Her doctoral thesis is a cross-cultural study of contemporary women writers. Her books, Crossings: Stories from Bangladesh and India, Chokher Bali and In the Name of the Mother, are English translations of major Bengali writers, including Tagore, Mahasweta Devi, Sunila Hossain and Shamsul Haq.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Selina Hossain
Selina Hossain is a noted writer and activist from Bangladesh. She has had a long association with the Bangla Academy, during which she has published several anthologies of short stories, novels, anthologies of essays and novels for children. She has received numerous literary awards including the Ekushey Padak (highest national award for contribution to Bengali literature) in 2009, the Bangla Academy Literary Award (1980). Her work has been translated into various languages.
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