Volume 41, Number 5 · March 3, 1994
Damsels in Distress
By Anita Desai
Women Writing in India, Vol. II: The Twentieth Century
edited by Susie Tharu, edited by K. Lalita
The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 641 pp., $29.95 (paper)
Inevitably, the sequel to a book that has delighted its readers by its discoveries and its fresh insights and visions will disappoint when it does not repeat its achievement. When we come to the second volume of Women Writing in India, the ground has already been broken, the pioneering zest has become familiar, and what had astonished us by its novelty and courage can begin to seem labored and excessive. On hearing the same voices, the same arguments, the ear ceases to register all the shades and tones.
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