To homogenise writers from different languages and to further look for similarities between writers in the same language is perhaps to commit a grave injustice to literary traditions of a language and the individuality of writers within a tradition. When…
Like their counterparts in other languages, women writers of fiction in North India have also played a crucial role in sensitizing the public about the various issues related to women. Feminist discourse has been kept alive in the many journals…
“Women in India have traditionally been tellers of tales.” Lakshmi Holmstrom Anthologising short stories is an act of conservation. It is also an act of faith. Short stories appear mostly in magazines, journals and newspapers which have a…
Abstract: A literary work becomes a very effective instrument of social change when the author has the motive to rebel against the social atrocities of a particular period. Such works play their role as messiahs by attracting a large number…
Abstract: Hysteria is deemed as a woman’s malady. For centuries, it was believed to be a condition of woman’s illness in which the uterus was thought to be wandering. The attitude of society to madness in woman has a…
Abstract: Farida Karodia, born and raised in the Eastern Cape in South Africa, has taught in South Africa and Zambia and spent twenty-six years in Canada. She has reworked her first novel, Daughters of the Twilight, published by The Women’s…
Abstract: Indian women had been writing poetry in Prakrit, Pali, Sanskrit and the regional languages long before the problematics of nation-states, nationality, postcoloniality, feminism or naribad, nativism or desivad, power structures and the politics of identity and difference had claimed…
Abstract: The history of Malayalam novel — a history that spans more than a hundred years — is also the history of the depiction of power. The chief novels of each period in Malayalam has manifested this characteristic. Along with…
Abstract: An examination of Indian women’s fiction focussing on women’s issues presents any number of women defeated, ‘dis’empowered and crushed by the forces they have been struggling against. This essay discusses the above factor drawing examples from contemporary Indian fiction…
