LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 15:1 January 2015
ISSN 1930-2940

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Theme of Suppression in the Selected Novels of Taslima Nasrin -
Lajja and French Lover

A. Aruna Devi, M.A., M.Phil.

Lajja

Abstract

The article Theme of Suppression in the Selected Novel of Taslima Nasrin - Lajja and French Lover brings out the sufferings of common people under the name of religion and culture of the South Asian Society as picturised by Taslima Nasrin. Lajja is an account of the religious and social discrimination and suppression which became more virulent with the outburst against the demolition of the Babri Masjid in India on 6 December, 1992. It is a serious indictment against continuous and sustained subjugation of the minority community. French Lover documents the failure of the institution of marriage to protect women in any culture which is based on a concept of women’s dependence on the male protector. The paper deals with the various techniques employed by the author in the novels. Taslima Nasrin convinces the readers that the fundamentalist forces can be stopped if all of us who are secular and humanistic join together and fight their malignant influence.

Key words: Taslima Nasrin, colonial society, religion, Babri Masjid, Lajja, French Lover, failure of marriage institution, feminist writing

Taslima Nasrin’s Feminist Writing

At this juncture the emergence of Taslima Nasrin’s feminist writings inaugurates one of the controversial moments in the annals of South Asian literature. Taslima Nasrin, a woman writer of Bangladesh, is an award-winning writer, physician, secular humanist and human rights activist. She is known for her powerful writings on women oppression and unflinching criticism of religious fanaticism.

Focus of This Paper

In this paper, Taslima Nasrin’s Lajja and French Lover are chosen for discussion. Through these novels, Nasrin brings out the sufferings of the common people under the name of religious and cultural practice of the society. She elaborately discusses the patriarchal institutions and customs of Bangladeshi society. She has shown that the patriarchal institutions and customs of Bangladeshi society constitute the armour for the contending male rendering the female helpless. By unveiling the patriarchal agenda of subordinating women, and by introducing overt and covert strategies to subvert this agenda, she has pioneered the feminist discourse in South Asian society.

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A. Aruna Devi, M.A., M.Phil.
Assistant Professor of English
Sri Ramasamy Naidu Memorial College
Sattur-626203
Tamil Nadu
India
arutheiva15@gmail.com

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