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About the Book:Contemporary Indian Women?s Writing has moved away from the confines of domesticity to engage with the historical, political, cultural and economic dimensions of the public space. A distinctive body of such writing is engaged with issues of caste, religion, ethnicity, sexuality, ecology and gendered violence. Through their writings these women writers effectively unveil the imbrications of race, ethnicity and gender evident in the dynamic postcolonial locus today and reveal that race, ethnicity, gender and class are interconnected, interdetermining historical processes rather than separate systems.This volume, containing eighteen stimulating articles, is a scholarly endeavour to offer valuable reflections on the theoretical/ conceptual and creative aspects of contemporary Indian women?s writing in English impacted by different material and ideological spheres of life in recent times. It is hoped that this anthology will not only be of great use to scholars and general readers, but will also inspire many to undertake fresh studies on the subject. About the Editors:Nazneen Khan is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Modern European Languages, University of Lucknow, Lucknow (U.P.). She received the U.G.C. Junior Research Fellowship for her Ph.D. on Shashi Deshpande. Her areas of interest include Indian Writing in English, Indian Literatures in English translation and African and Caribbean Poetry. She has several research papers and articles published in various literary journals and anthologies to her credit.Shiv Govind Puri (Born: March 1977) is presently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Modern European Languages, University of Lucknow (U.P.). He studied in Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. His areas of interest include Contemporary Indian English Fiction, Australian Literature and Indian Literature in English. He has recently completed a UGC sponsored Major Research Project entitled ?Other Voices: A Study of English Fiction by Contemporary Indian Women Writers?. He has supervised 11 Ph.D. scholars, and 08 Ph.D. research scholars are still working under him. He has also guided two M.Phil. students for their dissertation. He has done a course on ELT, PGDTE from TEFLU (CIEFL), Hyderabad.