The new series—Studies in Women Writers in English—is a grateful acknowledgment of the contribution and public recognition of the emerging voice of women in the arena of literature during the last few centuries, and especially in the latter half of the twentieth century. Women writers across the globe have made their distinctive mark, with their own perception of life—be it feminine, or feminist or female. The critique of work by women writers introduced in the present volume, the sixth in the series, bears evidence to the growing critical attention towards authors writing outside the mainstream, in America, Canada, and especially in India, who can be seen sharing similar awareness and feelings regarding the woman’s angst and aspirations. Since most of the authors discussed in these articles are prescribed in the English syllabus in the universities of India, both the teachers and the students will find them extremely useful, and the general readers who are interested in literature in English and/or women writers will also find them intellectually stimulating.

Table of Contents:
1. The Art of Jane Austen – Bhaskar Roy Barman 2. Interrogating Culture: Sexuality, Madness and Marxism in the London Novels of Doris Lessing – Liza Das 3. Toni Morrison’s Sula as a Feminist Novel – Mallikarjun Patil 4. Mini Narratives: A Reading of Margaret Atwood’s “A Women’s Issue” and “The Animals in that Country” – Raja Sekhar Patteti 5. Limiting the Body, Embodying the Limit: Sexuality, Homogeneity, and Difference in the Imagined Communities of Two Canadian Women’s Novels – Pedro Carmona Rodríguez 6. ‘A Body of One’s Own’: A Study of Violation of Women’s Body in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things – Jaydeep Rishi 7. Feminism in Roy’s The God of Small Things – R.S. Jain 8. The Nostalgic Note in their Flute: A Reading of Arundhati Roy and Jhumpa Lahiri – Nandini Sahu 9. The Letter and the Image: India in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake – Manisha Sharma 10. The Theme of Indian Marriages in Cauvery Madhavan’s The Uncoupling – Shubha Tiwari 11. Shades of Life in Usha K.R.’s The Chosen – Shubha Tiwari 12. Psychological Exploration of Women: The Indian Literary Context – R.K. Mishra 13. Breaking of the Silence: The Novels of Shashi Deshpande – Urvashi Sinha and Gur Pyari Jandial 14. Patterns of Feminism and That Long Silence – Santwana Haldar 15. Splintered Self Journeying Toward Integration: A Matter of Time – Asha Sharma 16. Theme and Structure in Shashi Deshpande’s Moving On – V.R. Badiger Contributors