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

Women's 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 Women's Responses from South Asia has ten essays on writers such as Jamila Hashmi Amrita Pritam Shashi Deshpande Jhumpa LahiriTehmina 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 women's 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.