LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 16:3 March 2016
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
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A Reading on the Portrayal of the Female Tragic Fate in
Manju Kapur’s Selected Fiction

Anusha Mathew, M.A., Ph.D. Research Scholar
Dr. Narasingaram Jayashree, Ph.D.

Abstract

Manju Kapur in her works, Difficult Daughters, Home, A Married Woman and Immigrant vividly portrays how gender operates within the framework of traditional family disturbing it to its roots. A detailed reading of Kapur’s novels make us aware that through the story of her female protagonists, she projects the view, when an Indian woman, in spite of her education, status and intelligence, tries to marry according to her own choice, is likely to spoil her prospects in both the worlds- the one that she revolts against and the other she embraces. The daring step is severely condemned and rejected. Such marriage is quite likely to prove disastrous dragging the couple to melancholy, depression and despair. The first novel Difficult Daughters, pictures the event during the turbulent years of Indian freedom movement and the partition of the country. It presents the life of Virmati through various ups and downs, with her dreams, desires, longings and aspirations but ultimately ending with a lot of compromises in her life.A Married Woman, traces the life of Astha from her childhood to her forties through various desires and despairs, complements and rejections, and recognitions and frustrations. Nisha in Home quite successfully represent the victimization of female in many joint families behind the veneer of relations. Immigrant focuses on Nina who struggles to break the shackles of the patriarchy and is in a search for the meaning of her life opposing the dogmas of cultural and social critical thinking.

Keywords: Identity, patriarchy, feminism, lesbian.

Feminism

Feminism as a movement attained a tremendous momentum in the latter half of the twentieth century and women throughout the world have seriously taken their efforts to deconstruct the social creations of gender in all areas of life. Women are deeply aware of their own rights and claims and they feel that there is no excuse for keeping women down anymore, anywhere. They reject the male construct of sexual difference as political difference and man’s freedom and women’s subjection as an accepted natural phenomena. As an opposition to their widely accepted ‘object’ roles, they try to lift themselves to the role and status of ‘subject’. They discard male defined feminity and demand greater autonomy in their lives.

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Anusha Mathew, M.A.
Ph.D. Research Scholar
Sree Narayana Guru College
K G Chavadi
Coimbatore-641105
Tamilnadu
India
rosemathew001@yahoo.co.in

Dr.Narasingaram Jayashree, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
PSGR Krishnammal College
Coimbatore-641004
Tamilnadu
India
jayashreegayathri@gmail.com

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