Contents: Preface. Contributors. 1. Unique Navigator of technique Katherine Mansfield/K. Usha Sharma. 2. Psychological reconciliation with reality: Bessie head's a question of power/N. Lakshmi. 3. Tehmina Durrani's blasphemy from a multiple perspective/K. Sandhya. 4. A woman of power of Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities/R. Vithya Prabha. 5. The unheard suffering of the Bush women and inequality between the sexes from the study of Barbara Baynton's works/P. Bhunaneswari. 6. The feminist movement and Virginia Woolf/Behzad Pourgharib. 7. Voice of woman consciousness in Buchi Emecheta's 'Kehinde'/S.S.V.N. Sakuntala. 8. Speak, Speak, Speak, Speak! How long will you endure it is silence? a reflection on Mahaswetha Devi's mother of 1084/S. Prasanna Sree. 9. Silent suffering and unheard agony of women in the works of Shashi Deshpande/J. Padma Kumari. 10. The song of Mary Turner in Doris Lessing's--the grass is singing/N. Jaya Rao. 11. Women consciousness/D. Krushna. 12. Desperate rebellion vs. oppression: a study of Jelinek's The Piano Teacher and wonderful, wonderful times/J. Ravindranath. 13. The ailing aliens in Anita Desai's fire on the mountain/M. Hema Latha. 14. Shadows from the past/K. Usha Sharma. 15. Suffering is not a matter of option (A study of Doris Lessing's the grass is singing)/M. Sarah Kamala Kumari. 16. Universal female experiences in women's writing: an Indian perspective/Nalini Dutta. 17. Psycho analytical treatment of alienated woman's self in the selected works of Anne Tyler and Shashi Deshpande/Sunalini K.K. 18. Psychological perspective in Toni Morrison's Sula/K. Usha Sharma. 19. Balance between the innerself and the societal self (some reflection on Bharathi Mukherjee's Life)/A. Suri Babu. 20. Poetry of revolt against marginalization of matriarchal section in India: a thematic study of Kamala Das's poetry in feminist perspective/R.K. Mishra. Index.
"Alien Among Us: Reflections of Women Writers on Women is an outcome of the proceedings of the international seminar hosted by Department of English, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam. The theme of the seminar was Psycho Dynamics of Women in the post modern literature of the east and west. The present book is a collection of selected research papers presented at this international seminar.
This book contains papers on the main theme of the seminar and also on the sub-themes like re-reading the canon of English literature, The Women's Movement, the discourse of sexuality, gender dualism, eco feminism, black feminism, gyno-criticism, voice of woman consciousness, womanhood and motherhood in literature, domestic violence, psychoanalytical treatment of women, silent suffering and unheard agony in the regional writings on women.
This book, it is hoped, will prove to be a great asset to all those research scholars, teachers and students who want to work on gender issues." (jacket)
