English Literature on Public Insight, Nonfiction, Equality and Feminism

  • Ms.K. C. Athira

Abstract

Indian English literature is the collection of articles written by Indian writers. This article depicts the writings of women authors. Most of the women Indian writers in English literature focussed their views on different concepts such as social discrimination, fiction, non-fiction, literacy, democracy, human rights and feminism.The articles are based on their real life experiences as well. A few writings of Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai, JhumpaLahiri,MeenaAnand, Gita Piramal, JasodharaBagchi, ManjulaPadmanabhan, Meena Alexander, Sarojini Naidu, NayantaraSahgal and Rama Mehta are summarised in this article. The authorsandtheircontributiontoThe God of Small Things, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, Interpreter of Meledies, A Voice for Freedom,Dalit Women: Fear and Discrimination, Managing Radical Change,Indian Women: Myth and Reality, House of Thousand Doors, Double talk andInside the Haveli are portrayed. Theseworksare considered as theassets of Indian literature which attainedseveral acclamations. The article purely deals with the Indian women writers whose contributionsare well utilised for the welfare of the countrys development in different ways.

Published
2019-10-09
Section
Articles