Emerging South Asian Women Writers: Essays and Interviews (1) (From Antiquity to Modernity: Studies on Middle Eastern and Asian Societies) - Tapa dura

"Arguably, one of the pressing obligations for literary academics in the West is to provide opportunities for colleagues in the emerging world, and particularly women, to be seen and heard, authors who otherwise might have little access to publishing houses focused on profit. This intelligently conceived collection of analytical essays does just that, introducing readers to women who often write of local and personal concerns that may surprise postcolonial theorists. Emphasis on scholars in India is welcome as well. The book's interviews are fascinating windows into the worlds of writers seeking larger audiences, and clearly deserving them. The editors' introduction is an eye-opener, demonstrating the extent to which this `emerging' world is more than ready to be heard - and one result may be an enlarged comprehension of globalization." (John C. Hawley, Professor of English at Santa Clara University and Editor of the Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies)

Feroza Jussawalla is Professor of English at the University of New Mexico. She is the author of Family Quarrels: Towards a Criticism of Indian Writing in English (Peter Lang, 1985) and of a collection of poems, Chiffon Saris (2003); editor of Conversations with V. S. Naipaul and co-editor with Reed Way Dasenbrock of Interviews with Writers of the Post-Colonial World; and editor of Border Crossing, the special online issue of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Review (2012). She is the author of numerous articles in Indian, European, and U.S. literary critical journals. Deborah Fillerup Weagal holds a PhD. in English with an emphasis in postcolonial literature and is term teaching faculty at the University of New Mexico. She is the author of Interconnections: Essays on Music, Art, Literature, and Gender (2004), Women and Contemporary World Literature: Power, Fragmentation, and Metaphor (2009), and Words and Music: Camus, Beckett, Cage, Gould (2010). Her articles have appeared in the South Asian Review, the Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics, an anthology on Rohinton Mistry, and a variety of other scholarly journals.