Tense Past, Tense Present - Women Writing in English (Hardcover)

Suggesting that women are 'reshaping English' as Rushdie suggests, Kuortti interviews 7 women writers to find out why they write in English, which cannot be neutral. As a colony, the language was inescapably associated with class, race and power; after independence it has grown in power and status, yet the problematic of English as the language of the hegemonic West remains. Even so a new canon of women writing in English is being formed. Interviewing the writers Shashi Deshpande, the late Shama Futehally, Githa Hariharan, Lakshmi Kannan, Sujatha Mathai, Anuradha Marwah-Roy and Mina Singh, Kuortti also presents extracts from their writings.

General

Imprint:	Bhatkal & Sen
Country of origin:	India
Release date:	February 2003
Authors:	Joel Kuortti
Dimensions:	140 x 220 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	235
ISBN-13:	978-81-85604-58-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General
LSN:	81-85604-58-4
Barcode:	9788185604589

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