LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 16:2 February 2016
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.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
         C. Subburaman, Ph.D. (Economics)
         N. Nadaraja Pillai, Ph.D.
         Renuga Devi, Ph.D.
         Soibam Rebika Devi, M.Sc., Ph.D.
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Reconstructing the Self in Anita Nair’s Ladies Coupe

Dr. Madhusmita Pati
Madhumita Das

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Anita Nair occupies a prominent place as a novelist in Indian English Literature. In her novels, she depicts all kinds of characters and explains how her characters are alienated from one another and from the society. Ladies Coupe deals with multiple voices, where Nair answers few questions that every woman would have faced in her life. Ladies Coupe unravels the misinterpretations about the role of women in contemporary post-colonial feminist literature.

Keywords: Anita Nair, feminism, Ladies Coupe

Anita Nair’s Novels

Anita Nair occupies a prominent place as a novelist in Indian English Literature. In her novels, she depicts all kinds of characters and explains how her characters are alienated from one another and from the society. Her major themes are of social treatment, human relationship, particularly that of man and woman, their loneliness and lack of communication. Her concentration is exclusively is on feelings and thoughts of the characters, and their search for self-identity. Nair makes her characters suffer and enables them to come out of it. Nair’s characters, their suffering become their strength and weapon to fight out their predicaments.

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Dr. Madhusmita Pati
Reader
RavenshawUniversity
Cuttack
Odisha
India

Madhumita Das
Research Scholar
RavenshawUniversity
Cuttack
Odisha
India
mononitdas01@gmail.com

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