Omschrijving
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.
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.