This book is a comparative and developmental study of the expression of feminist concerns in the novels of Kamala Markandaya, Nayantara Sahgal, Anita Desai, and Shashi Deshpande, among the best known and most prolific Indian novelists writing in English, who have been self-consciously engaged with women's issues during the postcolonial era.

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ELIZABETH JACKSON is a Sessional Lecturer in Literature at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK, where she teaches courses on Victorian, colonial and postcolonial literatures. She has also taught at Goldsmiths College, University of London, where she earned her PhD in 2007.

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Book Title: Feminism and Contemporary Indian Women's Writing
Authors: Elizabeth Jackson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230275096
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-23627-1Published: 20 January 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-27509-6Published: 20 January 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 200
Topics: Postcolonial/World Literature, Gender Studies, Asian History, Twentieth-Century Literature, Feminism, Modern History

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

Women, Cultural Identity and Social Class

Marriage and Sexuality

Motherhood and Other Work

Women’s Role in Maintaining and/or Resisting Patriarchy

Form and Narrative Strategy

Conclusion

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