Image of Woman in the Recent Indian English Fiction by Women - Hardcover

Indian society is undergoing a gradual transformation. It is witnessing the emergence of 'new' woman, who is self-conscious, confident and assertive. The present study seeks to examine select novels of five major Indian women writers, namely Shashi Deshpande's That Long Silence, Uma Vasudev's Shreya of Sonagarh, Githa Hariharan's The Thousand Faces of Night, Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things and Shobha De's Snapshots. These novels offer a fresh perspective on the process of social change which is meaningful and in tune with the changing times. The book is a welcome addition to the corpus of Indian literature, Women's Studies and Sociology.