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This book attempts to deal with the problem of literary subjectivity in theory and practice. The works of six contemporary women writers — Doris Lessing, Anita Desai, Mahasweta Devi, Buchi Emecheta, Margaret Atwood and Toni Morrison — are discussed as potential ways of testing and expanding the theoretical debate. A brief history of subjectivity and subject formation is reviewed in the light of the works of thinkers such as Hobbes, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Raymond Williams and Stephen Greenblatt, and the work of leading feminists is also seen contributing to the debate substantially.
Contents
Introduction: Subjectivity and the Woman Writer 1. Theoretical Debates 2. Doris Lessing: Striving for Wholeness 3. Anita Desai: Fighting the Current 4. Mahasweta Devi: A Luminous Anger 5. Buchi Emecheta: Hazardous Border Crossings 6. Margaret Atwood: Between Two Worlds 7. Toni Morrison: Imagined Grace. Conclusion: Reconfiguring Subjectivity
