Author: Manmohan K Bhatnagar
Publisher: Atlantic Publishers
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 318
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8171568246
Description
Feminism is a rapidly developing critical ideology of great promise. It has evolved into a philosophy encompassing diverse fields of human activity in society.The present anthology provides a broad spectrum on Feminist English Literature.
The feminist theory, its varied articulations and its ramifications in a literary context constitute a significant segment for critical endeavor.
With in-depth analysis of the works of Kamala Das, Kamal Markandya, Anita Desai, Rama Mehta, Shashi Deshpande, Uma Vasudeven, Githa Hariharan, Nina Sibal, Arundhati Roy, Mary Shelley, Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Margaret Atwood, Jean Rhys, Ellen Glasgow, F Scott Fitzgerald, Toni Morrison and others, this anthology provides a broad spectrum.
The volume also contains articles on feminist theory, the emerging self of women in Indian English Fiction and general appraisal of women novelists as regards their portrayal of the Woman’s question
Contents
Preface
Feminist English Literature –An Introduction
Kamala Das – Need for Re-Assessment
The Unconscious Desire and its Fulfillment in Kamala Markandya’s A Silence of Desire
Images of Alienation – A Study of Anita Desai’s Novels
Inside the Haveli –The Silent Transformation
Roots and Shadows- A Feminist Study
Articulation of the Feminine Voice: Jaya in Shashi Deshpande’s that Long Silence
Shreya of Sonagarh: A Sexist approach
The Image of woman in Uma Vasudevan’s The Song of Anasuya – A Study
Yatra – A Journey Unto Self-Accomplishment
The God of Small Things – A Feminist Analysis
Fictional Treatment of the Neurotic Phenomenon –
Indian Women Novelists in English and Psycho-analysis
For a Story of My Own – The Female Quest for Identity: A Global Perspective
Shobha De’s Socialite Evenings – A Feminist Study
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: A Study in Repression and hysteria
Elizabeth Bennet, Jane Austen’s Feminist Heroine
The Concept of Perfect Man in Between the Acts of Virginia Woolf
Atwood’s I and Thou
The Feminine Predicament in Margaret Atwood’s the Edible Woman
A Doll’s House – A Reassessment
Ellen Glasgow’s The Miller of Old Church -Vision of a Changing Woman
Female Characters in F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Critique of Toni Morrison’s Feminism
The Alienated Self – A Study of Anita Desai’s Clear Light of Day
T S Eliot and Hinduism
Superstition and Psyche in Anita Desai’s Cry, The Peacock
Where Shall We Go This Summer? – Sita’s Incarcerated Self
Tradition and Deviation – A Study of Anita Desai’s Novels
Feminism Jettisoned in Pinter’s Plays
Nargis Dalal –The Woman Writer
Concept of Woman in Nectar in a Sieve
The Novels of Tony Morrison – A Feminist Study