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Anthologies

A Dragonfly in the Sun: An Anthology of Pakistani Writing in English. Edited by Muneeza Shamsie. Oxford University Press, 1997.
A Lotus of Another Color: An Unfolding of the South Asian Gay and Lesbian Experience. Edited by Rakesh Ratti. Alyson Publications, Boston. 1993
A Patchwork Shawl: Chronicles of South Asian Women in America. Edited by Shamita Das Dasgupta. Rutgers University Press, N.J. 1998.
A Place to Live: Contemporary Tamil Short Fiction. Edited by Dilip Kumar. Penguin India Innumerable strands of ethnic, regional and universal experiences are woven together in this collection of fine short fiction spanning four decades-1960_1990-in which the short story emerged as the definitive genre of modern Tamil literature. Twenty-nine famous names are represented here-from Rajanarayanan to Paavannan and many others who have encapsulated the joys, sorrows and peculiar challenges of life in Tamil Nadu.
Translated by Dilip Kumar, whose mother tongue is Gujarati, a well-known short story writer in Tamil with several awards to his credit. He has published two collections of short stories (Moongil Kuruthu, Cre-A, Chennai, 1985, and Kaduvu, Cre-A, Chennai, 2000) and a critical work on Mauni-a pioneer of Tamil short stories (Mouniyudan Koncha Thooram, Vanadhi Pathipagam, Chennai, 1992). He lives in Chennai and runs a small literary bookshop. [Sawnet Review]
Against All Odds: Essays on Women, Religion and Development from India and Pakistan. Edited by Kamala Bhasin, Nighat Said Khan and Ritu Menon. Kali for Women, New Delhi. 1994
And the World Changed: Contemporary Stories by Pakistani Women. Edited by Muneeza Shamsie. Women Unlimited, New Delhi. 2005. Feminist Press, CUNY, 2008 Despite individual success, English language writing by Pakistani women, as a body of work, is not widely known. The intention of this anthology is to break that silence and explore the fiction and creative prose of Pakistani women who, by choosing English as their creative medium, write from the extreme edges of both English and Pakistani literature. Their work challenges the stereotypes imposed on them, as women and as writers, by the patriarchal culture of countries both in the diaspora and in Pakistan.
CONTRIBUTORS: Aamina Ahmad, Bapsi Sidhwa, Bina Shah, Fahmida Riaz, Feryal Ali Gauhar, Fawzia Afzal Khan, Hima Raza, Humera Afridi, Kamila Shamsie, Maniza Naqvi, Muneeza Shamsie, Nayyara Rahman, Qaisra Shahraz, Roshni Rustomji, Rukhsana Ahmad, Sara Suleri, Sabyn Javeri-Jilani, Sehba Sarwar, Shahrukh Husain, Soniah Kamal, Sorayya Khan, Tahira Naqvi, Talat Abbasi and Uzma Aslam Khan.
New edition from The Feminist Press, CUNY. This collection features a new introduction by editor Muneeza Shamsie and a new piece by poet and Colonize This! editor Bushra Rehman. [Sawnet Review]
Another India: An Anthology of Contemporary Indian Fiction and Poetry Edited by Nissim Ezekiel and Meenakshi Mukherjee. Penguin Books, 1990
Anthology of modern writing from Sri Lanka Edited by Ranjani Obeyesekere. Univ of Arizona Press, 1981.
At the Gates Edited by Uma Parameswaran. Larkuma Press larkuma2003@yahoo.com. 2004. A collection of stories by 6 students in a creative writing course, as well as one by their teacher and editor, Uma Parameswaran. The stories are about death, darkness, drugs, violence and idealism. "...each of these remarkable characters stands at the gate between this world and the next..." [Sawnet Review]
Atlas of Women and Men in India Edited by Saraswati Raju, Peter J. Atkins, Naresh Kumar, Janet G. Townsend. Kali for Women, New Delhi, 1999. A compilation of 100 maps using data from the 1991 census, this book maps a regional geography of women and men, using indicators as diverse as literacy, education, voting patterns, cultural groupings, fertility rates, workforce participation.
Aurat Darbar Edited by Fauzia Rafiq. Toronto: Second Story Press, 1995.
Bequest of Wings: Indian short stories Edited by Margaret Paul Joseph. Macmillan, India, 1994.
Between the Lines: South Asians on Post Coloniality Edited by Deepika Bahri and Mary Vasudeva. Temple University Press. 1996. Contains essays (e.g. by Uma Parameswaran, Ranita Chatterji) and interviews (e.g. with Gayatri Spivak).
Beyond Belief: Contemporary feminist Urdu poetry Edited by Rukhsana Ahmed (translator). ASR Publications, Lahore, 1990. Reprinted as 'We Sinful Women', The Women's Press, London, 1990
Blood into ink: South Asian and Middle Eastern women write war Edited by Miriam Cooke and Roshni Rustomji-Kerns. Westview Press, Boulder, Co. 1994
Bolo! Bolo!: A Collection of Writings by Second Generation South Asians living in North America. Edited by Kitchen Table Collective. SAPNA, 2001. [Sawnet Review]
Borders and Boundaries Edited by Ritu Menon and Kamla Bhasin.. Kali for Women, 1998 A feminist recounting of Partition explores the trauma and loss which women suffered.
Breakthrough Edited by Sukrita Paul Kumar. IIAS, 1992.
Close to Home: Women reconnect ecology, health and development worldwide Edited by Vandana Shiva. New Society Publishers, Philadelphia, Pa. 1994
Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism. Edited by Bushra Rehman & Daisy Hernandez. Seal Press, 2002 Ms. Magazine columnist Hernandez and poet Rehman, both feminist activists, have assembled a broad collection of essays by young women writers, academics, and activists from a range of cultures and sexual orientations. One writer describes herself as a "mixed brown girl, Sri-Lankan and New England mill-town white trash," and clearly delineates the organizing differences between whites and women of color: "We do not kick ass the way the white girls do, in meetings of NOW or riot grrl. For us, it's all about family." A Korean-American woman struggles to create her own identity in a traditional community: "Yam-ja-neh means nice, sweet, compliant. I've heard it used many times by my parents' friends who don't know shit about me." An Arab-American feminist deconstructs the "quaint vision" of Middle-Eastern women with which most Americans feel comfortable. This impressive array of first-person accounts adds a much-needed fresh dimension to the ongoing dialogue between race and gender, and gives voice to the women who are creating and shaping the feminism of the future.
Conflicting Images: India and the United States Edited by Sulochana Raghavan Glazer and Nathan Glazer. Riverdale Company, Glen Dale, Md. 1990
Contours of the Heart Edited by Sunaina Maira & Rajni Srikanth.
Creation fire - a CAFRA anthology of Caribbean women's literature Edited by Espinet, Ramabai. Sister Vision Press, Toronto. 1990
Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire Edited by Sonia Shah. South End Press, 1997. Contains chapters by Sonia Shah, Ananya Bhattacharjee, Purvi Shah, Bandana Purkayastha, Shyamala Raman, Kshiteeja Bhide, Shamita Das Dasgupta and Sayantani Das Gupta.
Five Novellas by women writers Edited by Mini Krishnan. Oxford University Press, India. 2008 Bringing together the work of five highly accomplished contemporary Indian women writers - Mrinal Pande, Saniya, Nabaneeta Dev Sen, Vaidehi, and B.M. Zuhara - this collection of novellas from five Indian languages revolves around the lives of women from various walks of life. With the novellas translated in English for the first time, the book includes a critical introduction by Uma Chakravarti. Five Novellas by Women includes Nabaneeta Dev Sen's 'Defying Winter', a brilliant exposition on how women living in an old age home rebuild their lives, Mrinal Pande's 'Farewell Song of a Woman', which explores the mind of a matriarch who gains freedom only through the ultimate release - death, and Saniya's 'Thereafter', about a woman whose husband leaves her after years of marriage. Vaidehi's 'Temple Fair', a joyous and bittersweet evocation of the memories of a fair in small town Karnataka and B.M. Zuhara's 'Moonlight', which dwells on how a woman spends her adulthood in a nuclear family by re-imagining her childhood constitute the other two works in the collection. [Sawnet Review]
Flaming Spirit: stories from the Asian Women Writer's Collective Edited by Rukhsana Ahmad & Rahila Gupta. Virago Press, London, 1994.
Her Mother's Ashes and Other stories by South Asian Women in Canada and the United States Edited by Nurjehan Aziz. TSAR Publications, Toronto. 1994
Hers: India Perspectives: an anthology of poetry in English by Indian women. Edited by Mary Ann Dasgupta. Writer's Workshop, Calcutta, 1978
Image and Representation: Stories of Muslim Lives in India. Edited by Mushirul Hasan and M. Asaduddin,. Oxford University Press Includes Ismat Chughtai and Shama Futehally.
Imagining America: Short Stories from the Promised Land Edited by Wesley Brown and Amy Ling. Persea Books, New York. 1991
In other words: new writing by Indian women Edited by Urvashi Butalia & Ritu Menon. Westview Press, Boulder, Co. 1994
In Search of Answers: Indian Women's Voices from Manushi Edited by Madhu Kishwar and Ruth Vanita. 1984. Zed Books, London.
In Their Own Voice: The Penguin Anthology of contemporary Indian women poets. Edited by Arlene R.K.Zide. Penguin Books, New Delhi, 1993.
Indelible Imprints: Daughters write on fathers Edited by Priti Desai, Neela D'Souza and Sonal Shukla. Stree Books, Bhatkal
InVAsian: Asian Sisters Represent. Study Center Press, Ca. 2003. [Sawnet Review]
Kaleidoscope: South Asian Women in Britain. Edited by Kusum Pant Joshi. South Asian Affairs, 2003. Profiles of 10 South Asian women in diverse fields from various parts of the Indian subcontinent living in present day Britain. They range from filmaker Gurinder Chadha, Kathak & Odissi dancer Priya Pawar, Urdu writer Shahida Ahmed, theatre artist Sudha Bhuchar, publisher Lucky Dissanayake, health promotion and social care specialists Jahanara Loqueman and Janaki Mahendran, media women Achala Sharma and Farah Durrani and freelance consultant Tanzeem Ahmed. Each of the women profiled speaks with frankness and passion as they unravel their background, experiences, work, trials and achievements in diverse fields. [Sawnet Review]
L'India dell'anima Edited by Andrea Sirotti. Le Lettere, Florence, Italy [Sawnet Review]
Living in America: Fiction and Poetry by South Asian American Writers Edited by Roshni Rustomji-Kerns. Westview Press, Boulder. 1995
Making Waves: An Anthology of Writings by and About Asian American Women Edited by Asian Women United of California. Beacon Press, San Francisco., 1989
Mapping Memories Edited by Sukrita Paul Kumar & M.A. Siddiq. Katha, 1998. A collection of Urdu stories written after 1960 by eminent writers from India and Pakistan.
Mixed: An Anthology of Short Fiction on the Multiracial Experience. Edited by Chandra Prasad. W.W.Norton Though multiracialism has recently become a popular aspect of many memoirs and novels, Mixed is the first of its kind: a fiction anthology with racial overlap as its compass. With original pieces by both established and emerging writers, Mixed explores the complexities of identity that come with being a multiracial person. Every story, crafted by authors who are themselves mixed-race, broaches multiracialism through character or theme. With contributors such as Neela Vaswani, Cristina Garcia, Danzy Senna, Ruth Ozeki, Mat Johnson, Wayde Compton, Diana Abu-Jaber, Marina Budhos, Mary Yukari Waters, and Peter Ho Davies, and an illuminating introduction by Rebecca Walker, Mixed gives narrative voice to the multiple identities of the rising generation.
More contemporary stories by women writers of India Edited by Kali for Women. Introduction by Chandra Talpade Mohanty and Satya P. Mohanty. Feminist Press, New York.
Mosaic: New Writings from Award-winning British and Indian Writers. Edited by Monisha Mukundan. Penguin, 1998 [Sawnet Review]
Neither Night nor Day: 13 Stories by Women Writers from Pakistan. Edited by Rakhshanda Jalil. Harper Collins, India. 2007 An entrepreneur in Bosnia, a ghost in the elevator, a deaf-mute father who dies yearning for his son's acceptance, a fantastical kingdom of people without tongues, a young girl on the threshold of marriage and death -- this collection of stories takes us through the strange and often twisted realities that shape our lives. We meet the pragmatic Dina Lal who trades religion for safety in anti-Hindu Pakistan, a still-dignified Narjis on her last journey while her child sleeps in the arms of her jailor, and several others -- young and old, male and female -- as they wrestle with the dile mmas of conflicting cultures and ideologies.
An eclectic mix of thirteen stories by Pakistan's finest women writers, Neither Night Nor Day explores milieus both old and contemporary and exposes, in the process, the underbelly of a society where the spectres of history continue to chase time.
Nine Indian Women Poets Edited by Eunice de Souza. Oxford University Press, 1997. [Sawnet Review]
Odyssey: stories by Indian women authors settled abroad Edited by Divya Mathur.
Of Women, outcastes, peasants and rebels: a selection of Bengali short stories Edited by Kalpana Bardhan. University of California Press, Berkeley. 1990
Our Feet Walk the Sky: Women of the South Asian Diaspora Edited by Women of the South Asian Descent Collective. Aunt Lute Books, San Francisco, Ca. 1993
Poems by Nepali Women Edited by Shailendra K. Singh. Singh Prakashan, Kathmandu. 1994.
Putting the Pickle where the Jam Should be Edited by Seni Seneviratne, Maya Chowdhry, Shahidah Janjua. Write Back, Sheffield. 1993.
Quilting a New Canon: Stitching Women's Words Edited by Uma Parameswaran. Sister Vision Press, Toronto. 1996.
Recess: The Penguin Book of Schooldays. Edited by Palash Krishna Mehrotra. Penguin, India, 2008 [Sawnet Review]
Savvy: Stories by Indian Women Writers Edited by Suresh Kohli. Arnold Books, New Delhi. 1992
Selected Subaltern Stories Edited by Rannajit Guha. "articulates the hidden or suppressed accounts of numerous groups -- women, minorities, disadvantaged groups, refugees, exiles..."
So You Can Know Me: an anthology of Pakistani Women Writers.. Edited by Yasmin Hameed & Asif Aslam Farrukhi. Garnet World Fiction, UNESCO Collection of Representative Works. "This collection of seventeen short stories by Pakistani women covers a wide range of subjects, from the stream-of-consciousness that is "Millipede" - recounting a man's descent into madness as his obsession that he has become infected by insects grows - to the violence shown by a father to his son when he beats him to within an inch of his life in "The Coach". The stories have a diversity that reflects Pakistani women themselves."
Stories from Sri Lanka. Heinemann Educational Books, Hong Kong, 1979. The first anthology to present Sri Lanka's contemporary fiction writers to the English reading public.
Storylines: conversations with women writers Edited by Ammu Joseph, Vasanth Kannabiran, Ritu Menon, Gouri Salvi, Volga. Women's World (India) and Asmita Resource Center for Women, Hyderabad. A compilation of 17 interviews of writers and poets of eminence writing in different languages, and includes, Ilampirai, Bama (Tamil), Shafeeq Fatima Shera (Urdu), Sarup Dhruv, Dhiruben Patel (Gujarati), Nayantara Sehgal (English), Nabaneeta Dev Sen (Bangla), Sara Aboobacker (Kannada), Volga (Telugu), Rukmini Bhaya Nair (English), among others.
Telling it Like it is Edited by Nadya Kassam. Livewire Press, UK, 1997.
Tense Past, Tense Present: Women Writing in English. Edited by Joel Kurotti. Stree, Kolkata, 2003. Interviews with seven women writers -- Shashi Deshpande, Shama Futehally, Githa Hariharan, Lakshmi Kannan, Sujatha Mathai, Anuradha Marwah-Roy and Mina Singh.
The Forbidden Stitch: An Asian American Women's Anthology Edited by Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, Mayami Tsutkawa and Margarita Donnelly. Calyx Books, Corvallis, Or. 1989
The Inner Courtyard: Stories by Indian Women Edited by Lakshmi Holmstrom. Virago, London. 1990
The Redbeck Anthology of British South Asian poetry Edited by Debjani Chatterjee. Redbeck, London, 2000.
Third Eye: Women Writings from Karnataka. Edited by Lakshmi and T. V. Subramanyam. Srishti Publications, New Delhi. 2000. [Sawnet Review]
Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism Edited by Chandra Mohanty, Ann Russo and Lourdes Torres. Indiana University Press. 1991
Truth Tales: Contemporary Stories by Women Writers of India Edited by Kali for Women. Feminist Press at CUNY, New York. 1990.
Where the Rain is Born: Writings about Kerala. Edited by Anita Nair. Penguin, India. 2003
Women and the Hindu Right Edited by Tanika Sarkar & Urvashi Butalia.
Women at the Crossroads: A SriLankan Perspective Edited by Sirima Kiribamune and Vidyamali Samarasinghe. Published by Vikas in India.
Women Bhakta Poets. Manushi Trust, New Delhi, 1989.
Women poets of India: an anthology of Indian poetry. Edited by Pranab Bandopadhyay. United Writers, Calcutta, 1997.
Women Writing in India: From 6th century B.C. to the present day; Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 Edited by Susie Tharu and K. Lalitha. Feminist Press, New York. 1990, 1992
Writing from India Edited by Lakshmi Holmstrom and Mike Hayhoe. Cambridge University Press, NY. 1994
Written By Herself, Vol. II Edited by Jill Ker Conway. Vintage, 1996.

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