Feminism and Contemporary Women Writers

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Feminism and Contemporary Women Writers is written by Radha Chakravarty and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1317809955 (ISBN 10) and 9781317809951 (ISBN 13).

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.