1st Edition
Family Fictions and World Making Irish and Indian Women’s Writing in the Contemporary Era
Introduction
- Marriage and the Big House: Elizabeth Bowen and Molly Keane
- Youth and the Bildungsroman: Mahasweta Devi and Jennifer Johnston
- Globalization and Fiction: Kiran Desai
- The Celtic Tiger Novel: Anne Enright
Conclusion
Biography
Sreya Chatterjee is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Houston. She specializes in global Anglophone, postcolonial literatures, and women’s writing with emphasis on core-periphery relationships in women’s fiction from Ireland and India. She has published on diverse topics such as Dalit autobiography in Comparative Literature Studies (2016), and representations of Naxalism in literature in Setu (2017). Most recently, her essay on the Irish playwright Brian Friel appeared in History, Imperialism, Critique: New Essays in World Literature (Routledge, 2018).
"A detailed and incisive exploration of the ways that gender complicates our understanding of peripheral modernity, Sreya Chatterjee’s portrait of Irish and Indian women’s writing in the contemporary era vividly captures literature’s role in exposing the social contradictions of our times. Bringing together approaches to world literature, combined and uneven development, and feminist criticism, Family Fictions and World Making renews the prospects for a materialist feminism attuned to the entwinement of public and private, selfhood and sociality, as well as labor and capital." Keya Ganguly, University of Minnesota
