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Synopsis Indian English literature has established its credentials all over the world. Still litterateurs in this stream have to be continuously appraised and evaluated and key issues like the impact of multiculturality and the role assigned to women have to be confronted and analysed threadbare not merely in theory but also through the elucidation of key texts from this perspective. The present volume scrutinizes Kamala Markandaya’s corpus as part of this general critical endeavour. The volume comprises scholarly studies of Nectar in a Sieve, Possession, A Handful of Rice, A Silence of Desire and Pleasure City, besides examining in depth Kamala Markandaya’s rural sensibility, the silent saga of suffering chronicled in her novels, her philosophic vision of life, her portrayal of social tensions and her feminist poetics, taking a holistic view of her writings. An indispensable source of fresh and innovative insight into the making of Markandaya’s craft of fiction. A useful supplement to the existing studies of her novels. An original perspective on life, society, values, gender-issues and related areas for students, teachers, researchers working in the fields of literary theory, fiction studies, aesthetics, culture, philosophy and the sociology of literature.