LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 16:6 June 2016
ISSN 1930-2940

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“Revolutionary” Women in ‘Snap Shots’ of Shobha De

S. VijayaKumari M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. Research Scholar
Dr. N. Geethanjali M.A., Ph.D.


Abstract

This paper discusses the revolutionary sexual practices of the major women characters in the novel ‘Snap Shots’ of Shobha De. Shobha De is a controversial Indo- Anglican novelist who challenges the traditional values of Womanhood. To her credit, are more than seventeen novels. Most of her women characters are not conservative, not male dependent but revolutionary. For them, money matters most. They never fail to assert and assume economic independence . These characters look awkward, strange and unacceptable to the orthodoxicals. Through her characters, she celebrates and glorifies sex in most of her novels. Sex is not a taboo for her. The major women characters in the novel ‘Snap Shots’ are postmodern and they belong to the group called ‘ New Women’. This novel is about the reunion of six women who were classmates in school. They meet to recollect their dirty past and present. For them it is not dirty it is not a taboo. De presents the sexual revolution against the conventional sexual practices. The major women characters in this novel are all revolutionary in their approach to life.

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Introduction

Most of the modern novels differ from the traditional novels in picturing the significance of life. In the traditional novel, major Women characters were highly domestic, caring the promotion of family and willingly subjugating themselves to the head of the family. Sacrifice, fidelity and devotion to family was their slogan. They showed no murmur or resistance even if they were ill treated. Indeed they were silent women. That was the culture of that day. Today, there is a cultural change and the rising change in the culture of the metropolitan cities and particularly among the modern women finds a place in the modern novel and that too in India where Sitas, Savitiris and Nalayanis were born. Morality is redefined in terms of social and economic status. Emancipation from rigid moral codes and freedom from religion are all found in the self-expression of the modern women.

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Mrs. S. VijayaKumari
Lecturer in English & Ph.D. Research Scholar
Seshasayee Institute of Technology
Tiruchirappalli Full pin code
Tamilnadu
India
svsiteng@gmail.com

Dr. N.Geethanjali Associate Professor / P.G. & Research Department of English
Periyar E.V.R. College
Tiruchirappalli-23
Tamilnadu
India
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