LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 23:8 August 2023
ISSN 1930-2940

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Manju Kapur’s Home: A Voice of Protest

Dr. Anjali Verma, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.


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This research paper attempts to investigate the aspect of protest expressed by Manju Kapur's female protagonists in the novel Home. Almost every Indian English Woman Novelist has addressed "protest issues" in their works. The goal here is to discover what feminist attitude Manju Kapur employs in her story to highlight the suffering of women. This article investigates the spirit of resistance against patriarchal hegemony that the subjugated women characters engage in in their own unique ways. Home (2006) is the novel under consideration.

The protagonists of contemporary Indian English women novelists are educated, career-oriented, smart women who are psychologically repressed by hegemonic forces. As modern literary theory focuses on ‘self-presentation,' female novelists investigate the inner problems of their female protagonists while also situating them in cultural, political, and social frameworks. The frequent concerns of protest highlighted by women novelists revolve around the woman's identity, her struggle against oppressive patriarchal systems.

The major works of almost all Indian women novelists depict these 'questions of protest' in one way or another along the following parameters: They symbolise the battle that calls into question the patriarchal prescriptions of a virtuous woman.

They reject the given responsibilities within the family and society, as well as the established paths. Kapur sets out to convey the suffering of women in her own unique style.

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While everything else in the world has changed dramatically, women's status and authority in regard to males has stayed relatively constant. The novel is informed by the parts and pieces that are instantly recognisable with all of the happenings in the mixed families - marriages, celebrations, scandals, where Kapur unwaveringly throws the spotlight on the women. A large number of women appear in the novel, including Rupa and Sona, two childless sisters, their daughters-in-law, and the novel's central character, Nisha, Sona's daughter born after 10 years to her, around whom the second part of the story revolves.

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Dr. Anjali Verma, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.
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