LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 16:1 January 2016
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
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         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
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         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
         C. Subburaman, Ph.D. (Economics)
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         Soibam Rebika Devi, M.Sc., Ph.D.
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Representations of Women in Short Stories by
Sahitya Academy Award Recipients in Kannada Literature

Dr. Kalpana Mukunda Iyengar

Abstract

This article explores representation of women in short stories written by women writers from the state of Karnataka, India. The seven different stories selected for analysis are – (1) The Two Paintings (2) Mother, (3) Second Marriage, (4) Roowariya Lakshmi, (5) Dog’s Tail, (6) The Third Eye, and (7) The One Who Left Forever. Each of these stories represents women who play different roles that were archetypal of the social milieu of the times. The authors were preoccupied with women’s suffering, status, sexuality, familial obligations, psychological experiences when women fall in love outside of their marriages, and an attempt to emancipate from societal and familial constraints.

Keywords: Women’s suffering, obligations, sexuality, love, constraints

Introduction

Eminent women authors from Karnataka wrote short stories that have been chosen for analysis here. The stories were originally written in Kannada and then translated to English by Lakshmi and T.V. Subramanyam. Women in these stories play different roles such as housewives with modern ideas, an old fashioned stay home ideology to serve her husband, an artist’s wife, a young woman married to an elderly man who is twice her age, a mother who has decided between tradition and her attachment to her son, a woman who experiences attraction outside marriage, and a woman’s dilemma to marry a man older because he is wealthy and family pressure.

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Dr. Kalpana Mukunda Iyengar
San Antonio & Haridwar Writing Project Co-Director
Department of Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching
The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
mavanurmohannavilegowri@gmail.com
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