LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 17:12 December 2017
ISSN 1930-2940

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A Study of the New Woman in the Selected Novels of
Manju Kapur and Shobha De

Dr. Ancy Joseph, M.A., Ph.D.
Anusha Mathew, M.A., NET.


Abstract

From time immemorial, Indian society is patriarchal in its approach. It demands submissiveness, patience, obedience, unconditional love and service mentality from a woman. If anyone deviates from the traditional paradigms, they are hardly accepted in the society and even considered as an outcast. With the acquisition of education and occupation that led to economic independence, Indian women’s approach towards their own servitude state begin to change.The present paper attempts to make an inquiry into the new woman concept employed by two leading female authors, Manju Kapur and Shobha De in their works.

Keywords: Manju Kapur, Shobha De, identity, suppression, self-quest, new concept of woman

The New Woman Concept

This paper attempts to make an inquiry into the new woman concept employed by two leading female authors, Manju Kapur and Shobha De in their works. Literature is indeed the most explicit account of the human essence. It is a medium through which the spirit of our living is made predominant by linking it to the fanciful experience.From time immemorial; Indian society is patriarchal in its approach. It demands submissiveness, patience, obedience, unconditional love and service mentality from a woman. If anyone deviates from the traditional paradigms, they are hardly accepted in the society and even considered as an outcast.With the acquisition of education and occupation that led to economic independence, Indian women’s approach towards their own servitude state begins to change. In the early period of twentieth century onwards, women started to react and oppose the phallo-centric suppressions and begin to think and decide upon the matters that affect them. It paves way to the daring and striking concept of the modern woman.

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Dr. Ancy Joseph M.A., Ph.D.
HOD, Associate Professor
Department of English
St. Dominic’s College
Kokkappally
Kanjirappally 686555
Kerala
India
ancyvg@gmail.com

Anusha Mathew, M.A., NET
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Christ College
Irinjalakuda680125
Kerala
India
anujins001@gmail.com

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