Based on the premise that feminist writing is pluralist and
transgressive, the paper takes up an analysis of works by women writers from
different cultures. It discusses how the employment of multiple voices along
with characters in flux is a major strategy in women's writing,
especially those from multiple cultures. These writers generally depict the
woman protagonists' quest for individual identity, something which `they' are
often denied in `other' cultures. Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso
Sea, Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman
Warrior and Shashi Deshpande's That Long
Silence contain fine examples of these feminist motifs, as evident in
the analysis made.
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