The present anthology, consisting of some twenty articles of moderate length by eminent scholars at the national level, is an attempt in analysing the point of view of women as evinced in the writings of the women writers belonging to the different genres and the countries like India, America, South-Africa, Canada, the other countries of the Commonwealth and Africa, and also the writing branded as ‘post modernist literature’ and the ‘literature of the new modernity’. Where the emphasis is laid particularly upon the issues of identity, alienation, suppression and protest pertaining to the lot of women in the present day world, the volume stresses an usurping issue of her dominance over men, not through her sexuality but the far effective qualities of her motherhood. This volume is brought out with the trust that it would throw fresh light on the approach of the researchers and make the literary critical art a pastime in excavating as well as analysing thoughts of the modern writers on both woman and her feminity.

Table of Contents:
1. Bessie Head : The ‘New African’ and her “The Deep River”—Prof. S.S. Deo 2. Fictional Concerns in Meher Pestonji’s Stories—Prof R.S. Pathak 3. Dina Mehta : No Rushdie’s Child—Prof. A.K. Tripathy 4. A River Sutra : A Gyno-Ecological Perspective—Prof. M.K. Ray 5. Setting the Scale Straight : Socio-Political Concerns in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things—Prof. A.N. Dwivedi 6. Pathways to Survival : Disintegration versus Stability in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye—Prof. Urmila Chakraborty 7. Growth of Canadian Poetry and Jay Macpherson : A Note—Dr. Shrawan K. Sharma 8. Feminism in Post-Colonial Discourse : A Subversive Manoeuvre—Dr. Rama Kundu 9. Ethnicity in America : Contemporary Women Poets—Dr. Shikha Mishra 10. Erotica and Transcendence : A Study of Anita Desai’s Heroines—Dr. A.H. Tak 11. Voices of Caribbean Women Poets in Canadian Poetry—Dr. Bharati A. Parikh 12. Gender and Ethnicity in the Plays of Chinese-American and Japanese-American Women—Dr. Subulaxmi Sundaram 13. Quest for Self and The Immigrant Experience in Bharti Mukherjee’s Fiction—Dr. Pradeep Trikha 14. Taslima Nasreen’s Lajja : A Study—Dr. S.P. Swain 15. Paro : A Tale of Two Ladies—Dr. Rashmi Gaur 16. Productive Imagination in Toni Morrison’s Paradise—Shruti Das 17. Bharathi Mukherjee’s Wife : A Post Modernist Novel—Dr. Mallikarjun Patil 18. Affirmation and Denial — The Art of Balancing : An Examination of the Fiction of Katherine Anne Porter—Dr. Susmita Banerjee 19. “Parenthood Makes You Vulnerable” : The Concept of Motherhood in Shashi Deshpande’s Binding Vine—Dr. Rashmi Gaur and Pallavi 20. Racial Sensuality and Gender Identity in Toni Morrison’s Sula—Dr. Monika Gupta