LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 12 : 10 October 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Emergence of Manju Kapur as Feminist in Difficult Daughters and A Married Woman

R. Sridevi, M.A., M.Phil.

Manju Kapur and Difficult Daughters This paper justifies the protest of Virmati, the protagonist in the novel Difficult Daughters. According to Christopher Rollason, Manju Kapur is the highly regarded living practitioner of Indian values (Christopher, "Women on the Margins: Reflections on Manju Kapur's Difficult Daughters"). Manju Kapur, like Shashi Deshpande, Arunthathi Roy, Gita Hariharan and Anita Nair, is one among the group of women writers in English live and write in India itself concerning the problems of the indigenous people here. Her novel, Difficult Daughters got the Commonwealth Writers Prize in the year 1998. It also acquired the international recognition, because this modern Indian fiction was translated into seven languages – Dutch, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. This novel deals with the late colonization and partition of India and has assuredly earned a very considerable and critical success.

The Character Virmati

In her novels, Manju Kapur gives importance to the familial characters especially women. Women strive to study at college, take part in the national movements, and tend to break the clutches of society like the old values. Virmati, a young woman born in Amistar into a good, high-minded household, falls in love with a professor who is her neighbour. The professor is a married person who lives with his mother, spouse and two children. The professor finally marries Virmati and they settle down in his home which Virmati’s parents have sublet to his family. His furious first wife leaves home in a difficult situation. The novel concludes with the emergence of Ida who is Virmati’s daughter.

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R. Sridevi, M.A., M.Phil., (Ph.D. Candidate)
Assistant Professor of English
Department of English
Karpaga Vinayaga College of Engineering & Technology
Madurantagam, Kanchipuram dt. Tamil Nadu
India
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