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| Title: | Tense Past, Tense Present
: Women Writing in English |
| Author: | Joel Kuortti |
| ISBN: | 8185604584 : 9788185604589 |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 140x220mm |
| Pages: | 243 |
| Weight: | .397 Kg. |
| Published: | Stree - February 2003 |
| List Price: | 32 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Literary studies: general: Womens studies: India: English |
Suggesting that women are 'reshaping English' as Rushdie suggests, Kuortti interviews 7 women writers to find out why they write in English, which cannot be neutral. As a colony, the language was inescapably associated with class, race and power; after independence it has grown in power and status, yet the problematic of English as the language of the hegemonic West remains. Even so a new canon of women writing in English is being formed. Interviewing the writers Shashi Deshpande, the late Shama Futehally, Githa Hariharan, Lakshmi Kannan, Sujatha Mathai, Anuradha Marwah-Roy and Mina Singh, Kuortti also presents extracts from their writings.
