Description: This volume investigates the tremendous contemporary spurt in the literary creativity of 'women writers' in Indian English Fiction. Demonstrating that fictional creation is no 'male territory' and women are no 'trespassers' in it. The contributors to this study, both discerning critics and major fictionists, scrutinize and evaluate the diverse, inter-related aspects of women's fiction. The volume meticulously brings together the voices of these persistent and determined Sheherzades, too significant to miss or ignore, in a wide-ranging in jargon-free and refreshing prose..

Contributors: Anne Collette, Anjana Sharma, Githa Hariharan, Jasbir Jain, Manju Kak, Meenakshi Mukherjee, Meeta Chatterjee, Nayantara Sahgal, Neelum Saran Gour, Radha Chakravarty, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Sharon Rundle, Sujata Sankranti, Susan Visvanathan, Vibha S. Chauhan, Yasmine Gooneratne.

Editor: Meenakshi Bharat is reader in English at Sri Venkateswara College, University of, Delhi. She is a translator, Reviewer and critic. Her other critical interests include Children's Literature, Women's fiction and English studies, areas in which she has done extensive research. Her book the Ultimate Colony: The Child in Postcolonical Fiction has just been released. She is currently engaged in the translation of a volume of Hindi short stories.