LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 12 : 5 May 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         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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Women in Distress in the Novel, ‘Sister of My Heart’ and the Resultant Relationship between Two Sisters: An Interchange of the Male and Female Archetypes

V. Vasanthi, Ph.D.

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Chitra Banerjee, an original and exotic Indian writer, is fundamentally a feminist and most of her works deal with the sufferings of women like yearning for a perfect love, their security, nightmares, disappointments, stoicism, struggle for recognition, female infanticide, agonies of abortion and fear of social stigma. Though Indian English literature can boast of many brilliant feminists, Chitra Banerjee can be considered unique among them as she weaves mythology, exoticism, suspense and intrigue in her stories and novels with a fascinating narrative, making them appealing enough for her readers. Most of these are enchanting yet these never fail to create an impact on the readers and nag them with some fundamental questions that the society will have be asked repeatedly regarding the sufferings of women.

Chitra Banerjee has been obsessed with these problems and admits to this fact in one of her personal essays, titled ‘What Women Share’ which she wrote in 1998, a year before she published ‘Sister of My Heart’. In the essay she speaks about her grandfather’s stories to her and her absorption of the same in a different manner.

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