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Malashri Lal. The Law of the Threshold: Women Writers in Indian English. Shimla, India. Indian Institute of Advanced Study. 1995. 167 pages. Rs175. ISBN 81-85951-22-1
In the fast-expanding area of New Literatures and postcolonial criticism, The Law of the Threshold provides a very useful and perceptive model for the methodology to be used in assessing Indian women who have written poetry and fiction in English. The threshold is used as a metaphor for these writers, "whose indeterminate position at home is problematized by the collision of inherent culture and alien language." Those who write in English are positioned on the border line of Indo-Western imperatives, an...