From 'a room of one's own' to 'a room in the home': Discourses of negation in Indian feminist post-colonial fiction of Anita Desai, Mannu Bhandari and Ashapurna Devi
The theoretical writings of many European and American feminists on Third World women and feminism foreground several problems regarding their understanding of Third World women. These problems are being increasingly brought to light by Third World women like, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Gayatri Chakraborty Spivak, Pratima Parmar, Valerie Amos and others. I personally have been inspired by Chandra Talpade Mohanty in conceiving and researching my dissertation which analyzes in a comparative light the struggle of three Indian Post-colonial women writers, writing in three linguistic traditions of India, namely, Anita Desai (English), Mannu Bhandari (Hindi) and Ashapurna Devi (Bengali), against the western feminist approaches to Third World women.
Literature, Comparative, Literature, Asian
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