Women's writing has become the focus of academic discourse in present times. There are books on women in Indian English literature and there are books on Indian literature in translation but there is not yet a book that foregrounds Women in Indian writing by women. I take this approach because I feel there is a need to understand and study Indian literature as an unsegregated whole, in the light of Indian sensibility. That is what precisely, my book aims to accomplish. Connoisseurs of Literature, researchers working in the field of Indian Literatures, Postcolonial literature, Gender and sexuality studies, and Women's literature will find it a usefulbook.
Dr. Asha Choubey is an Associate Professor of English and Head of the Department of Humanities at MJP Rohilkhand University, Bareilly. The Founder General Secretary of Jijiwisha, an association of Women Managers in Higher Education from U.P., Bihar, and Uttarakhand. Dr. Choubey has published more than 35 research papers in journals & anthologies, 4 on the Post-colonial Web, Brown University, Singapore, and presented more than 28 papers in National, International conferences/Seminars. Her research has been widely cited. Her book' The Fictional Milieu of Nayantara Sahgal' has got much critical acclaim. Her stories and poems have appeared in such International journals as Literary Paritantra, India; Apple Valley Review, USA; Quiet Mountain Essays, USA. She is a reviewer for Postcolonial Text, and Rupkatha, both online refereed journals. Also Dr. Choubey is an annotator for the Postcolonial section of Routledge's Annotated Bibliography. She has contributed invited chapters in a number of prestigious International volumes. She is editing an anthology on Dalit Literature besides working as the Principal Investigator of a major project on Language Anxiety funded by the UGC. Currently she is in Budapest on a research stay awarded by UGC, India and HSB, Hungary. Dr. Choubey can be reached at asha.choubey@yahoo.com, asha.choubey@gmail.com