LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 17:8 August 2017
ISSN 1930-2940

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Kamala Markandaya’s Modern Woman

Dr. S. Chelliah, M.A., Ph.D.

Abstract

This paper illustrates the fictional forte of Kamala Markandaya. She holds a unique place among Indian women novelists in skillfully depicting woman and her problems. By such skillful portrayals, Kamala Markandaya has heralded the dawn of a new picture of the modern woman of the twenty-first century – a woman with vision of the enlightened, awakened modern India by neatly depicting the social and cultural moves of the male – dominated society.

Keywords: Kamala Markandaya, Modern women of India, Indo-Anglian novel, Nectar in a sieve, A Handful of Rice, Possession, patriarchy

Indo-Anglian Novel

Indo-Anglian novel has played a vital role in the development of Indo-Anglian literature. In the words of Meena Shirwadkar, “Indo-Anglian fiction was the inevitable outcome of the Indian exposure to western culture and art-forms like the novel”. Murlidas Malwani regards Indo-Anglian literature as “a wonderful new literature born of the marriage between an Indian sensibility and a world language. Unlike American and Canadian literature, which comes from English speaking people, Indo-Anglian literature is an expression of those people whose mother tongue is not English. The Indo-Anglian writers wrote primarily for the Indian readers. They portrayed poverty, hunger, disease and the East-West conflict in their novels.

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Dr. S. Chelliah, M.A., Ph.D.
Professor, Head & Chairperson
School of English & Foreign Languages &
School of Indian Languages
Department of English & Comparative Literature
Madurai Kamaraj University Madurai - 625 021
Tamilnadu
India
aschelliah@yahoo.com

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