"Cracking India": Minority Women Writers and the Contentious Margins of Indian Nationalist Discourse

Mann analyzes four recent novels in English by South Asian women writers to underscore their contestations of the dominant, patriarchal national discourse of India and to articulate the heterogeneity and plurality operative within subcontinental women's resistances. Bapsi Sidhwa's "The Ice-Candy Man," Nina Sibal's "Yatra," Kamala Das' "Alphabet of Lust," and Suniti Namjoshi's "The Mothers of Maya Diip" are discussed.