Moon marked and touched by sun : re-inventing 'Woman words' in plays by African American women

Sukla Basu

Sukla Basu (Sen) is a professor of English at the Department of English and Other Modern European Languages, Visva-Bharati, India. She teaches British and American Literature and also drama by Indian English writers. Her published papers cover the English Renaissance, African American Literature, and Indian English Writing. She has supervised doctoral research on African American dramatists and at present is supervising research on African American short story and slave narratives. She also directs plays in the department and is actively translating poems in English to Bangla. email: sukla1951@gmail.com