Anita Desai and Kamala Markandaya's "A Comparative Study of Selected Novels" is an attempt to investigate the plights women as they are portrayed in novels that were chosen for this study, well methods protagonists these books employ order overcome challenges face. An experience both intriguing satisfying one which compares contrasts writings two different writers. Both Markandaya well-known au...

Anita Diamant’s first novel The Red Tent (1997) retells the story of Dinah, Jacob’s and Leah’s daughter, Joseph’s sister in Genesis chapter Old Testament. In this revised story, Diamant creates silenced woman Testament, as narrator novel. Weaving a different narrative than Hebrew myth, tries to subvert hierarchical structures phallogocentrism by focusing on women’s bodies, femininity, sexual po...