Title: The danger of gender
Description: The Danger of Gender explores the influence of caste, class and gender in contemporary women's writing in India. Gender affects women in fiction as well as in real life. This work represents the current situation of women in India throughout a social, historical and literary analysis. It is focused on three kinds of contemporary women's writing in India - such as Indian English literature (represented by Anita Nair); Dalit literature (exemplified by contemporary Marathi women writers) and Tribal literature (embodied by Mahasweta Devi and tribal women writers).
Subjects: Gender identity in literature, History, History and criticism, Indic literature (English), Women and literature, Women authors, Women in literature, gender, postcolonial literature, women's writing
Places: India, Mumbai
People: Anita Nair, Mahasweta Devi
Time periods: 20th century