LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 14:8 August 2014
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
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         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
         C. Subburaman, Ph.D. (Economics)
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Feminist to Female –
Emergence of Women in V. S. Naipaul’s
A House for Mr. Biswas

C. Ganga Lakshmi, Ph.D. and G. Baskaran, Ph.D.

Abstract

For the past few decades, the fictional writers have started portraying the existence of women’s experience which was formerly unnamed and unimagined. Different critical studies have been inspired, focusing the eyes of the readers, converging upon the world of women. The writers started to explore women’s struggle for liberation in their works. The term “Gender” is used to represent the social and cultural constructions of both genders, especially women now and this varies from place to place.

In this paper, the focus is on the women characters and their emerging self as a representative tool of cultural and political scenario. Further, this paper focuses on the changes encountered by them in the field of the philosophical, cultural, political and economic contexts.

It further narrows down its focus on the depiction of women in the novel A House for Mr.Biswas, by V. S. Naipaul and how he has narrowly dealt with the women characters. It further continues to find the position of women in his novels, as per Elaine Showalter’s three phases -Feminist, Feminine and Female. It highlights the emergence of characters in Naipaul’s writings from one place to another in the context of social, cultural and religious backgrounds.

Story Narrator as the Replica of Author’s Life

Naipaul, an articulate critic, has made his central protagonist or the narrator as a replica of his own life. He primarily writes about society, culture, alienation, rootlessness and the scathing of the persons who undergo these various aspects of diaspora. Though he stays in England and writes for the English audience, he writes about his Indian community in the West Indian Island of Trinidad. However, the major obstacle between him and his audience is the geographical distance.

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C. Ganga Lakshmi, Ph.D.
Lecturer
Department of English
Kalasalingam University
Anand Nagar
Krishnankoil 626190
Tamilnadu
India
gangalakshmi.c@gmail.com

G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of English
Gandhigram Rural Institute
Gandhigram-624 302
Tamilnadu
India
rgbaskaran@gmail.com

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