Post-Colonial Women Writers New Perspectives

includes index and biblioraphy

2. Jane Austen: 15 Reassessing Jane Austen: `The Unlikely Feminist` 3. Doris Lessing: 29 `The Real and Imagined Worlds` in Doris Lessing`s Fiction 4. Toni Morrison: 46 Toni Morrison`s Love-`An Epic of Enslavement and Liberation` 5. Margaret Laurence: 61 The Theme of Self-Definition in Margaret Laurence`s `Manawaka Women` 6. Nadine Gordimer: 74 A Post-Colonial Study of `Racism and the Realm of the Other` in Nadine Gordimer`s Fiction 7. Margaret Atwood: 87 Atwood`s Fiction: `A Barometer of Feminist Thought` 8. Inez Baranay: 103 `In Search of an Authentic Moment`: An Ecofeministic Reading of Inez Baranay`s Neem Dreams Alice Munro: 116 `Exploration of Womanhood and the Affirmation of Self in the Writings of Alice Munro Kiran Desai: 130 `From Comic Eccentricity to Post-colonial despair` in Kiran Desai`s Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard and The Inheritance of Loss Anita Nair: 147 `Journey of Self Discovery` in Anita Nair`s Ladies Coupe Manju Kapur: 159 `Discovery of Daring and Desire` in Manju Kapur`s Fiction 13. Shashi Deshpande: 173 `Seeking the Self in Shashi Deshpande`s That Long Silence 14. Jhumpa Lahiri: 184 `The Sense of Exile, Alienation and Assimilation` in Jhumpa Lahiri`s Fiction 15. Bapsi Sidhwa and Taslima Nasrin: 196 `Changing Images of Women` in the Fiction of Bapsi Sidhwa and Taslima Nasrin 16. Anita Desai: 205 `Delineation of Inner Spaces and the Angst Within` in Anita Desai`s Fiction 17. Nayantara Sahgal: 221 `Paradigms of Feminist Statement` in the Novels of Nayantara Sahgal 18. Monica Ali: 230 `The Immigrant`s Voyage` in Monica Ali`s Brick Lane