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Volume 18:2 February 2018
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Myth and Reality in Githa Hariharan’s
The Thousand Faces of Night

J. Sundariselvi, M.Phil. English


Abstract

The Thousand Faces of Night articulates the problems of women, the basics of Indian mythology, the lives of the three women, Devi, Sita and Mayamma. This novel is not just a feminist novel but it is a definite feminist writing in which myths are revisioned, rewrote and retold from a female point of view. The focus of this novel is on the inner life of woman, the inner spaces are reflected in detail.

Keywords: Githa Hariharan, feminist fiction, The Thousand Faces of Night, mythology, inner life of Indian women

Githa Hariharan

Githa Hariharan is an Indian author and editor based in New Delhi. She studied BA in English from University of Mumbai and MA in Communication from Fairfield. She had worked in the public broadcasting system in New York. Her first novel, The Thousand Faces of Night, won the Commonwealth writers prize in 1993. She has also published a collection of short stories entitled The Art of Dying’ and two novels, The Ghosts of Vasu Master 1994, When Dreams Travel 1999. She has published an anthology of Indian short stories translated from four major south Indian languages. Githa Hariharan is one of the women writers who have been producing a body of Indian literature that is committed to feminist and social issues.

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J. Sundariselvi, M.Phil. English
Sri AdichunchanagiriWomen’s College
Cumbum 625516
Tamilnadu
India
sundariselvi004@gmail.com

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