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Existentialism of Voiceless in the Select Novels of Manju Kapur –
A Thematic Study

Gouthami Paltati and Sravana Jyothi Doddapaneni
Assistant Professors

Abstract

Manju Kapur's novels deal with the identity crisis of voiceless in the society by giving a detail description of their socio-economic conditions, humiliation, and physical torture. The resemblances and differences of their lifestyle, the struggle, the problems that they face and the solutions that they come out would be the main element of her writings. The study tries to show how Manju Kapur's handling of the themes is different from that of the other novelists to demonstrate her artistic merits. The hypothesis thus posited is validated on the basis of the textual evidence compiled from the selected novels of Kapur.

The way she presented women might be having resemblance with feminist theory, but it is not synonymous with feminist theory. In fact, it assumes that women have a distinct experience, which requires separate analytical tools to understand, and it is preoccupied with understanding how women’s literature both expresses and shapes this experience. The review attempts to find out wretched and pitiable condition of women in post-independence India. It shows the gagging closeness and dangerous limits of Indian family esteems. The review centers on worries and struggles, to find a suitable place for themselves in the society from the people that are trying to dominate by all possible means.

Keywords: Manju Kapur novels, Humiliation, Subordination, Struggle, Patriarchy, Subjectivity, Resistance.

Introduction

A concept introduced by Elaine Showalter in Towards a Feminist Poetics, Gynocriticism refers to a kind of criticism with woman as writer/producer of textual meaning, as against woman as reader. Being concerned with the specificity of women’s writings and women’s experiences, it focuses on female subjectivity, female language, and female literary career, and attempts to construct a female framework for the analysis of literature. Gynocritics are primarily engaged in identifying distinctly feminine subject matter in the literature written by women, uncovering the history of female literary tradition, depicting that there is a feminine mode of experience and subjectivity in thinking and perceiving the self and the world, and specifying traits of “woman’s language”, a distinctively feminine style of speech and writing.

Manju Kapur is one of the Indian Writers from India and the image of the suffering but stoic woman eventually breaking traditional boundaries has had a significant effect. She is the most talked about and appreciated contemporary Indian English woman novelist. She has written five novels: Difficult Daughters (1998), A Married Woman (2002), Home (2006), The Immigrant (2009), and Custody (2011). Her first novel Difficult Daughters received a great international acclaim. This novel was published in 1998. Difficult Daughters was awarded the Commonwealth Writers Prize for the best first book (Eurasia) and was a number one best seller in India. In this novel the protagonist is trying to find a place for her in a world where her life is depicted by familiar duties and becomes embroiled in a forbidden affair while the seismic upheavals of the partition surround her.

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Gouthami Paltati (paltati.gouthami83@gmail.com) and
Sravana Jyothi Doddapaneni (sravani.alapati3@gmail.com)
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Andhra Pradesh 522213, India
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