Contemporary Women Writers and the Problematics of the Nation

Abstract

The intellectual trajectory of female aesthetics has taken a turn, from a concentration on women’s literary subordination and exclusion to women’s separate literary tradition. Women writers have moved on to encompass the political, national and universal. A closer look is required at the negotiations of women writers with bigger subjects like nation and its politics in the creative and critical field of English writing in India. Women writers have had significantly different negotiations with the nation since its inception. The writer has to glorify her nation or express the maladies of her nation and prescribe the ways and means to eradicate them.