LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 11 : 12 December 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.

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Quest for Feminine Autonomy -
A Brief Survey of Kamala Markandaya’s Novels

Asha Rani, M.A. and Shashi Bansal, M.A.

This article attempts to study the place of women in modern Indian fiction in English during 1950-1980 as reflected in the novels of Kamala Markandaya. The study directs our attention to women’s awakening consciousness and their quest for autonomy in a male dominated, tradition oriented society. The Indian woman emerges at the end of the study as a human person, essentially Indian in sensibility and likely to remain so in the near future.

Function of Women in Indian Fiction

The study shows us that the Indian woman - passive or aggressive, traditional or modern - serves to reflect the writer’s sense of isolation, fear, bewilderment and emotional vulnerability. Often she is also made use of as the agent for the author’s quest for psychological insights and awareness. She evokes a continuous discussion of social values; she is the focal point of the contact between the writer’s consciousness and the ailing world, her experience of reality and her hope for salvation. Most women in fiction and in real life have to grapple with conflict situations. How far to confirm, how to break away to assert one’s individuality, how to overcome the sense of loss in rebellion, how to resolve the identity crisis- these questions need to be answered.

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Asha Rani, M.A.
Associate Professor in English
Government P.G. College
Hisar 125001
Haryana, India
ila.singh@hotmail.com

Shashi Bansal, M.A.
Associate Professor in English
Government P.G. College
Hisar 125001
Haryana, India
bansal_d_k@yahoo.com
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