1) This is a comprehensive volume on the life and work of the well-known Hindi fiction writer and essayist Krishna Sobti. 2) Part of Writer in Context Series, this book discusses Sobti’s major works, her interviews, her letters, memoirs and her biography. 3) This book will be of interest to departments of South Asian Literature and Cultural studies across UK and USA.

1) This book presents a comprehensive account of the eminent Bengali writer and activist, the Ramon Magsaysay Awardee Mahasweta Devi's oeuvre in its full range and versatility. 2) It draws attention to Devi's role as a woman writer with a difference and her image outside Bengal. 3) This book will be of interest to departments of South Asian Literature and Cultural studies across UK.

1) This is a comprehensive volume on the life and work of the well-known Hindi fiction writer and essayist Krishna Sobti. 2) Part of Writer in Context Series, this book discusses Sobti's major works, her interviews, her letters, memoirs and her biography. 3) This book will be of interest to departments of South Asian Literature and Cultural studies across UK and USA.

This anthology of stories and poems challenges the stereotypical image of women, particularly Asian women, as passive and submissive. While the women in these stories come from diverse cultural backgrounds, their voices give poignant expression to many issues which are common-motherhood, family dynamics, economic deprivation, sexuality-questioning the patriarchal authority under which they lead their lives. Drawing upon the work of over sixty authors-from China, Mongolia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Macau, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Afghanistan, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Azerbaijan, Lebanon, Iran, Iraq and many others-the book offers a filigree of existential concerns and overlapping cultural patterns reflected in the literatures of these nations, transcending political boundaries. The creativity of the women writers represented in Speaking for Myself poses an alternative image of the Asian woman-strong, innovative and inspiring-and opens possibilities for dialogue across borders through literature.

Translation of an Urdu novel; includes critical appraisals of some of the author's works.