Emerging South Asian Women Writers : Essays and Interviews

Cover
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction (Feroza Jussawalla and Deborah Fillerup Weagel)
Essays
	1. Chandani Lokugé’s If the Moon Smiled: Female Subjectivity and Trauma at the South Asian/Australian Cultural Crossroads (Dolores Herrero)
	2. Injustice, Resistance, and Subversion: A Study of Selected Plays by Indian Women Playwrights (Seema Malik)
	3. Transnational Feminism in Sidhwa’s Cracking India: A Geocritical Study of the Great Divide of the Indian Subcontinent (Sobia Khan)
	4. South Asian Muslim Women Speak for Their Rights and Resistance (Feroza Jussawalla)
	5. Women Trapped in a Quagmire: A Study of Mrinal Pande’s My Own Witness (Manoj Kumar Mishra)
	6. Constructing “Home”: Eros, Thanatos, and Migration in the Novels of Anita Rau Badami (Laurel Ryan)
	7. “Womenspace”: Negotiating Class and Gender in Indian English Novels (Geethanjali Singh Chanda)
	8. Neelum Saran Gour: Novelist of Small Town India and Beyond (Shyamala A. Narayan)
	9. Hybridity and the Politics of Identity in the Writings/Texts of Diasporic South Asian Women (Umme Al-wazedi)
Interviews
	10. Language, Diaspora, and Identity: An Interview with Yasmine Gooneratne (Deborah Fillerup Weagel)
	11. A Journey from Sri Lanka to Australia: A Conversation with Chandani Lokugé (Sissy Helff)
	12. Gender without Borders: An Interview with C.S. Lakshmi/Ambai (Antonia Navarro-Tejero)
	13. Speech-Act: An Interview with Susan Visvanathan (Geetha Ganapathy-Doré)
	14. Afterword (Feroza Jussawalla and Deborah Fillerup Weagel with Jill Dehnert)
	Contributors