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The world body of literature in English, during the last few centuries, has been immensely enriched by women writers with their sharp perception and profound insight into hitherto unexplored areas of human experience on the one hand, and technical innovationsoften daring and always refreshingon the other. The new seriesStudies in Women Writers in Englishis a grateful acknowledgment of that contribution and public recognition of their voice. The twenty-four essays included in this volume cover a wide spectrum of contemporary women writers across India and abroad, including diasporic spaces of the world today. In addition to the over-view studies, the women writers discussed in this volume represent a wide spectrum ranging from Rita Dove and Nikki Giovanni to Kamala Das, Anita Desai, Nayantara Sahgal, Shashi Deshpande, and Kiran Desai. Since most of these authors are prescribed in the English syllabus in the universities of India, both the teachers and the students will find the book extremely useful, and the general readers who are interested in literature in English and/or women writers will also find it intellectually stimulating.