LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 13 : 1 January 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
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         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Mother – Daughter Relationships:
A Study of The Dark Holds No Terrors, Difficult Daughters and Fasting, Feasting

Jitender Singh, M.A., M.Phil., NET.

M.Phil. Dissertation

Chapter – 1        Introduction

Chapter – 2        Mother-Daughter Relationships in The Dark Holds No Terrors

Chapter – 3        Mother-Daughter Relationships in Difficult Daughters

Chapter – 4        Mother-Daughter Relationships in Fasting, Feasting

Chapter – 5        Conclusion

INTRODUCTION

It is said that life is all about relationships. Human beings are the products of the social system in which they live and dwell, and in order to play their societal roles appropriately, certain types of relationships have been established. The one thing that these relationships give birth to is a sense of commitment. One of the most committed relationships, from emotional and psychological point of view, is the one shared by mother and daughter. However, in today’s postmodern world, in which gay-lesbian relationships and live-in relationships are the burning issues of discussion, it appears a little obsolete to talk about mother-daughter relationship. But one cannot gainsay the fact that this is undoubtedly the single relationship that has the strongest bearing on a woman’s life and experience.

Themes of segregation and women’s subjugation under patriarchy begin to reverberate in Indian English Fiction after independence. A woman’s social identity, then, came to be examined with reference to her two major roles – wife and mother. In Indian English fiction, this theme has been represented recently, though with remarkable variations, in the works of a group of women writers including Anita Desai, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Shobha De, Shashi Deshpande, Arundhati Roy, Manju Kapur, Bharati Mukherjee, and others. The male writers, however, never diverted from the stereotypical image of motherhood; whereas these women writers have done their best to emancipate women from the protective mother stereotype. The pioneer in the analysis of different ways in which women are affected by motherhood is Anita Desai.

This is only the beginning part of the dissertation. PLEASE CLICK HERE TO READ THE DISSERTATION IN PRINTER-FRIENDLY VERSION.

Jitender Singh, M.A., M.Phil., NET.
Research Scholar
Department of English and Foreign Languages
Maharshi Dayanand University
Rohtak – 124001
Haryana
India
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