Book Review: WOMEN WRITERS OF THE SOUTH ASIAN DIASPORA: INTERPRETING GENDER, TEXTS AND CONTEXTS. Edited by Ajay K. Chaubey and Shilpa Daithota Bhat. Jaipur & Delhi: Rawat Publications, 2020

The trauma of displacement has timelessly affected women denying them of several things such as social position, cultural acceptance or even economic empowerment. The editorial comment that sums up the focal point of the book that, "this book interrogates diasporic issues of transplanted individuals through the analysis of the works by South Asian women writers..." The book speaks about the roaring popularity of select women writers from the Indian origin and how even within the diasporic centre of literature, there exists marginal positions for authors of other South Asian nations. Addressing the issues of Islamic feminism as appropriated in the body of Kamila Shamsie's Offence: The Muslim Case, Sania Iqbal Hashmi in her chapter incisively analyses how female writing offers alternative reading of the changing dynamics of 'religious and political ideologies' (139).