Her Stories: 20th Century Bengali Women Writers

by Sanjukta Dasgupta

A collection of short stories by contemporary women writers of Bengal. They essentially reflect the juxtapositions of class and gender in the decolonized space of independent India. The stories are about women's resistance to, reconciliation with and rejection of patriarchal ideology. Her Stories include a detailed preface. The special feature of the selection is its two-tiered structure, each story is preceded by a brief bio-critical introduction-cum-interview with the respective writer.

195 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2001

Reviews

[Anupama C K(b0rn_2_read) · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars

[Shristi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Stories of contemporary women written by contemporary female authors. This book consists stories of women who suffered in different ways but the common thing is their sorrow, agony they experienced because they are women. Though the condition of women have improved today but nonetheless it cannot be denied that women have faced suppression for a very long time.

The book binds all those stories of the women who were insulted, discriminated on the basis of their shape, size, color, character and a lot of other things that are sensitive for any human being. A very good mixture of different stories by well known female contemporary authors and quite an easy read.

[Shaan K SaiDh · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice collection ❤️ This book comprises of 8 stories by Bengali women writers - Ashapurna Devi, Mahashweta Devi, Nabanita Deb Sen, Bani Basu, Joya Mitra, Suchitra Bhattacharya, Minakshi Sen and Anita Agnihotri.

[Anusha Avadhani · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read the Kindle edition of this book. There were many spelling and grammatical errors. I liked the story "good woman bad woman".