LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 14:12 December 2014
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Feminist Perspective in the Selected Novels of Anita Nair:
Ladies Coupé and Mistress

P. Bala Muthu Marieswari, M.A., M.Phil.

Abstract

Post-colonial feminist literature has always carried the heavy burden of dealing with layers of misinterpretation of traditions and religions. At the center of this dilemma is the role of woman and her dependence, economically and socially. The more traditional a postcolonial society is, the more problematic the question of women’s emancipation is. Therefore, the more passionate its women novelists like Anita Nair raise what many readers might consider taboo questions about the role of woman in contemporary post-colonial India.

Among the novels of Anita Nair, Ladies coupé and Mistress are chosen for this paper. Through these novels Anita Nair has signalled the arrival of a sensitive writer who could perceive deeper mysteries in people’s personalities and take the reader on a wonderful journey of discovery. These novels have a talent for probing the insular world. In these pages I shall attempt an appreciation of Anita Nair’s powers for the delineation of the deeper layers of the woman’s personality

Keywords:Sensitive writer, Feminist literature, Women’s emancipation

Introduction

Post-colonial feminist literature has always carried the heavy burden of dealing with, layers of misinterpretation of traditions and religions. At the center of this dilemma is the role of woman and her dependence, economically and socially. The more traditional a postcolonial society is, the more problematic the question of women’s emancipation is. Therefore, the more passionate its women novelists like Anita Nair raise what many readers might consider taboo questions about the role of woman in contemporary post-colonial India.

Ladies Coupé

Anita Nair’s second novel Ladies Coupé has turned out to be a great success. It is the story of a women’s search for strength and independence and is about women’s conditions in a male dominated society, narrated with great insight, solidarity and homour.

Nair’s India suffers from a system of sex-role stereotyping and oppression of women that exist under patriarchal social organization. Of course, patriarchy, in its different forms, has tried in many ways to repress, debase and humiliate women especially through the images represented in cultural and traditional forms.

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P. Bala Muthu Marieswari, M.A., M.Phil.
Assistant Professor in English
Sri Ramasamy Naidu Memorial Arts and Science College
Sattur-626203
Tamil Nadu
India
balaleo9101988@gmail.com

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