LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 13:5 May 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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A Feministic Reading of Mulk Raj Anand’s Gauri

Aastha Sharma M.A., M. Phil., Ph.D. Research Scholar

The Old Woman and the Cow

Gauri, published in 1960 under the title The Old Woman and the Cow, is Anand’s only novel with a woman protagonist. G.S Balarama Gupta feels “Anand’s principal objective in writing The old Woman and the Cow is to hint at the emergence of Modern Indian Women, and he achieves it admirably.” (Gupta, 95) Being the only Woman protagonist in Anand’s fiction, Gauri deserves a special mention. The present paper is an attempt to analyze the character of from the point of feminism.

Female, Feminism and Feminist

The concept of feminism is quite broad and it is really difficult to decide whether it has achieved the aim it had set before itself. Since the past decade, the terms ‘Feminist,’ ‘female’ and ‘feminine’ have been used by feminists in a variety of different ways. In the words of Toril Moi, “The words ‘Feminist’ or ‘feminism’ are political labels indicating support to project the aims of the new women’s movement which emerged in the late 1960. Feminist criticism then is a specific kind of political discourse: a critical and theoretical practice committed to the struggle against patriarchy and sexism, not simply a concern for gender in literature.” (Moi, 204)

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Aastha Sharma, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. Research Scholar
Assistant Professor in English
Valliammai Engineering College
Kattankulathur 603203
Tamilnadu
India
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