Writing Lives Rewriting Times: Mapping Women's Responses from South Asia

About the Book: Womens writing from South Asia is incredibly diverse; it maps the geographical cultural and social hybridity of their respective countries. These authors have not only created their own lives but also have attempted to rewrite the historical time. Writing Lives Rewriting Times: Mapping Womens Responses from South Asia has ten essays on writers such as Jamila Hashmi Amrita Pritam Shashi Deshpande Jhumpa Lahiri Tehmina Durrani Ambai K R Meera Sujatha Gidla Chaoba Phuritshabam Shreema Ningobam and Soibam Haripriya. The nature of homosexual desire in the film Margharita with a straw as well as the role of food as an emotional anchor for diasporic communities in womens food memoirs such as Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India Tiffin and Love Loss and What We Ate: A Memoir are also explored in this volume. About the Author: EDITORS Seetha Vijayakumar is an assistant professor of English at N.S.S College Pandalam University of Kerala. She was awarded a Ph.D. from Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi for her doctoral thesis titled Kannagi’s Transformations: Silappadikaram’s Multilayered Schemata of Performance. She has translated Sylvia Plath’s Belljar and Pablo Neruda’s Love Poems into Malayalam in 2016 and 2022 respectively. Jyothy. C.R is an Assistant Professor of English at NSS College Pandalam University of Kerala. She was awarded her Ph.D. in 2014 for her thesis is entitled Multicultural Spectrum: Celebration of Cultural Diversity in the Select Novels of Ishmael Reed from Bharathiar University.