About the Book: Writing Resistance: A Comparative Study of the Selected Novels
By Women Writers
Resistance can be as esoteric as silence and silence can be as impenetrable as
hegemonic power; conversely, both resistance and silence have the potential to
challenge power. By its very nature, resistance is non-confrontational. It works
subtly through seemingly small, innocuous everyday acts of non-compliance and
achieves the desired results imperceptibly and slowly. As a
socio-cultural-historical practice, resistance has been largely successful, the
most obvious example being Gandhis philosophy of passive resistance; as a
literary practice it poses challenge to the reader as well as the author. Indian
women writers have provided variegated pictures