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The uptake of women's writing as a distinct genre in literature since the 1960s has been rapid and multifarious. This development has fuelled a generation of literary and cultural studies, and can be seen in the growing influence of women's and gender studies even in literary studies programs. The study of women's writing has alerted literature to crucial social, political and cultural problems with which the discipline must continue to grapple.New Women's Writing addresses this legacy and reflects upon the following questions: What is a critical history of women's writing? How has women's writing challenged literature's rigid disciplinary construction? How can we derive a distinct philosophy of women's writing and literary studies? How does an engagement with women's writing contribute to a literary understanding of the complex politics of literature?This book is designed to interest both the seasoned scholar of women's writing, as well as fledgling scholars who wish to grapple with the broad concept of women's writing and its manifestations in the twentieth century and thereafter.

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Subashish Bhattacharjee is an Assistant Professor of English at Munshi Premchand Mahavidyalaya and Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, both in India. He has authored several papers and co-edited Postcolonial Approaches to Literature (2015) and Reading Literature through Feminist Lens (2015). He is the founder and editor of The Apollonian and Editor of literary articles and academic book reviews of Muse India.Girindra Narayan Ray is a retired Professor of English at the Department of English of the University of North Bengal and Visiting Professor at Salesian College, both in India. He is the author of numerous papers and has co-edited The Postcolonial Woman Question: Readings in Indian Women Novelists in English (2010) and Writing Difference: Nationalism, Identity and Literature (2014).

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