GENDER DISCOURSE IN INDIAN WRITINGS IN ENGLISH

About GENDER DISCOURSE IN INDIAN WRITINGS IN ENGLISH

The book is a collection of 22 research papers/articles on the theme of gender from Indian English Writings. It is a critical study of the works of Shashi Deshpande, Anita Desai, Nayantara Sahgal, Krishna Sobti, Khushwant Singh, Bharati Mukherjee, Indira Goswami, Rama Mehta, Arundhati Roy, Kamala Das, Nissim Ezekiel, A. K. Ramanujan, Manju Kapur and Shobha De. The roots of gender discrimination stem from the patriarchal hegemony of our society. All forms of oppression, suppression, subjugation and exploitation of women have been projected through the analytical lenses by the erudite research-scholars and experts from the texts of Indian Writings in English.