Women Writing the Nation by Susie Tharu & K.Lalitha: Summary
The essay “Women Writing the Nation” is an extract from the introduction of the book titled The Twentieth Century: Women Writing the Nation by Susie
Summary of "Women Writing the Nation" by Susie Tharu & K.Lalitha Women Writing the Nation - Summary The essay “Women Writing the Nation” is an extract from the introduction of the book titled The Twentieth Century: Women Writing the Nation by Susie Tharu & K.Lalitha. They talk about Indian women writing, its theme and style, especially after independence. The introduction part advises the readers to read women writing against the conventional methods in order to understand the challenges undergone by the women writers. The essay begins by stating the decades 1940s and 1950s concluded the long and unhappy period of imperial domination. Moreover, those decades presented the initiation of new authorities and hence new skills were circulated among the Indians. It resulted in the establishment of the imaginative geography of India. Such established notions/ skills were extended and reworked in the second half of the twentieth century. At present people expect a feminist lite…