LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 16:2 February 2016
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Search for Values, Self-Fulfillment and Self-Desire
in Manju Kapur’s Difficult Daughters

Ms. T. Jayasudha, M.A., M.Phil., (Ph.D.)

Abstract

Feminism is a revolutionary ideology concerned with the question of power and marked by convolution and surplus of interpretations. The image of woman throughout the centuries has become fixed and stereotyped because of the roles assigned to them by society. Indian women novelists have been portraying women in various manifestations Recently, the remarkable range of India’s most accomplished women writers of post-colonial strand has brought a tremendous change in the trend of depicting women characters.Indian women writers like Gita hariharan,Sashi Deshpande and Arundhati Roy deal with psychological and emotional trap of women.They have tried to evolve their own stream of feminism grounded in reality.Manju kapur’s Difficult daughters is a major part in this track.

The present study is to explore the search for values, fulfillment and desire in the novel Difficult Daughters by Manju Kapur. She probes into the consciousness of Indian women living in joint families under male dominance and writes about the multifaceted Indian experience in colonial and post colonial times, reflecting the problems of women in particular.

Keywords: Feminism, post-colonial Indian Writing in English, Manju Kapur’s novels.

Manju Kapur

Manju Kapur was born in Amritsar,a town in the northern Indian state of Punjab in 1948. She completed her Bachelor of Arts from Miranda house University College for women. She earned her M.A. from Dalhousie University in Canada and she further did M.Phil from Delhi University.She is currently a professor of English in Miranda House, an Arts and Science College for Women under University of Delhi with her name Majul Kapur Dalmia.

Image of Women in Literature

Mary Ann Fergusson in her study of the Image of Women in Literature states “One peculiarity of the images of women throughout history is that social stereotypes have been reinforced by archetypes.”(Fergusson, p4) In every age woman has been portrayed either “as a mother, a wife, a mistress or an object of attraction and their roles have been defined in relationship to male counterpart. Depictions of women as achievers or leaders have been comparatively few”.(Bhagbat,p ix) But even these exceptional depictions of power or strength also manifest the extraordinariness of women which tend to ignore the lives of the ordinary and average ones.

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Ms. T. Jayasudha, M.A., M.Phil., (Ph.D.)
Research Scholar
Department of Science and Humanities (English)
KPR Institute of Engineering and Technology
Coimbatore-641407
Tamilnadu
India
jaisbhavi@gmail.com
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