Cabbages On The Bloom Women's Body And Space In The Sub-Continental Fiction

Cabbages on the Bloom is a collection of articles on sub-continental women writers. The anthology addresses the voices of sub-continental women writers and records the views and analysis of scholars working in different colleges and universities. Divided into two volumes, the book aims at delineating the position of women in the light of several changes making way. The image of women records a marked change during the last decades-from the portrayal of enduring women to conflicting individuals in search of an identity and a space of their own. Women writers not only re-interpret mythology by using new symbols and subverting the canonical versions but also exhibit the panorama of multiculturalism, alienation, displacement of the self and the quest for identity. As India approached its freedom, the writers, too, shifted their lanterns towards nationalism and heroism. Apart from male writers, the women writers, though, fewer in number, also contributed their mite to the literary corpus of sub continental writings. Kamala Markandaya, Ruth Prawar Jhabwala, Shashi Deshpande, Rama Mehta are some sparkling minds which paved way for the contemporary women writers of the subcontinent. The fire and aggression displayed by writers like Anita Desai, Jhumpa Lahiri, Bapsi Sidhwa, Taslima Nasreen and many Diasporic writers enabled them to qualify for a respectable niche in the world of sub-continental writers. The present volume comprises articles on the writings of Bharati Mukherjee, Kamala Deshpande, Anita Desai, Nayantara Sahgal Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai, Bapsi Sidhwa, Monica Ali, and Jhumpa Lahiri etc. The articles selected for both the volumes provide a creative, critical and comparative study to help the budding researchers, literary lovers and acolytes to augment their critical sparks further.About the Author Binod Mishra, faculty in the HSS department of IIT Roorkee has Taught in Various reputed institutes. He has authored nine books and edited nine anthologies, presented papers in many national and international conferences,and also published a good number of papers in various journals and anthologies. He has delivered talks in various reputed institutions and also conducted three short term courses and many workshops. His areas of interest include Indian Writing in English, Professional Communication, Soft Skills, Creative Writing in English and Women's Studies. One of his books entitled Communication Skills for Engineers and Scientists (co-authored with Sangeeta sharma) is being used as a text book in many professional institutes. An elected Treasurer of AESI (Association for English Studies Of India), Dr. Mishra is also on the editorial board of various reputed journals. He has received awards such as AIMS International Distinguished Service Award (2008), & 'Outstanding Editor of the Year' (2009), given by AIMS International. International Poets Academy, Chennai, India conferred on him “Excellence in World Poetry Award 2010”. Kalpana Purohit is Professor in the Department of English at Jai Narain Vyas University, Jodhpur. Her earlier stint as the Head of the Department, Birla Institute Mumbai and the first Coordinator of Communicative English, mumbai University sponsored by UGC reflected her administrative acumen. A member of several academic forums, Editorial Boards and an active researcher, she has extensively published articles in journals of national and international repute. She has published books on D.H. Lawrence, Absurd theatre and Literature for Children. A widely travelled person, she has also presented several papers at seminars and conferences and actively engaged in supervising Ph. D Scholars. Her areas of interest are American Drama, British Short Stories, Post Colonial Literature, Comparative Literature, Women's Studies, Media and Communication, French Studies. She is a recipient of prestigious Hira Lal Shastri Award for Women Education.