Name: South Asian Women’s Narratives
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South Asian Women’s Narratives

Literatures of Their Own

Edited By: Somjeeta Pandey, Bidhu Chand Murmu

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This collection explores works by South Asian women authors, discussing themes of gender, identity, diaspora, trauma, and the new ‘self.’ Their writings critically engage with social discrimination, empowerment, and the political issues of their times.

This collection on women’s narratives includes articles exploring the works of women authors who were either born in South Asia or identified as being from…

This collection on women’s narratives includes articles exploring the works of women authors who were either born in South Asia or identified as being from that region. It discusses themes of gender, identity politics, diaspora, trauma, and the new ‘self’ of women.

The volume addresses a great range of creative output by South Asian women authors and examines how their writings critically engage with the social, cultural, and political issues of their times, while also simultaneously exploring the themes of social discrimination, empowerment, and economic exploitation.

Somjeeta Pandey is an assistant professor of English at Gobardanga Hindu College, West Bengal, India. She is also a doctoral fellow at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. Her scholarly essays have been published in various journals such as the IIS Journal of Arts, Rupkatha Journal On Interdisciplinary Studies In Humanities, Journal of International Women’s Studies, Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics and others. She has also co-edited a book titled Reading Contemporary South Asian Literature: A Postcolonial-Ecocritical Approach (2022). Her research interests are rooted in crime fiction studies, feminist literary studies, South-Asian literature, Indian popular literature and ecocritical studies.

Bidhu Chand Murmu is an assistant professor of English at Narendrapur Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Kolkata, India. He is also a PhD scholar at the Department of English, Presidency University, India.

Pritha Banerjee, Soumyadeep Chakraborty, Anindita Shome, Rudrani Dasgupta Chaudhuri, Reena Sanasam, Amlan Baisya, Alekhya Mandal, Soumik Banerjee, Bidhu Chand Murmu, Somjeeta Pandey