LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 17:10 October 2017
ISSN 1930-2940

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An Exploration of Feminine Psyche in Namita Gokhale’s
Gods, Graves & Grandmother and A Himalayan Love Story

R. Kaleeswari, M.A., M.Phil.


Namita Gokhale
Courtesy: https://www.soas.ac.uk/south-asia-institute/events/launch-event/namita-gokhale-.html

Abstract

Namita Gokhale is a contemporary writer of Indian Writing in English. Her novels deal with the experiences of women, their aims, concern, demands, sensibility and consciousness. In Gods, Graves & Grandmother, Gokhale creates a female space which her women occupy with dignity, confidence and feeling of self-worth. Through the relationship of Shambhu-Phoolwati confirms the ‘New Woman image’. Phoolwati was kicking her husband Shambhu when he drunk and tried to beat her marks a reversal of the patriarchal norm of wife-beating. Gokhale’s third novel A Himalayan Love Story deconstructs the stereotypical confines of sexual boundaries by exploring an identity of a woman. It is a well known fact that sexual subjugation can lead to mental illness. Gokhale not only describes the mental ailment of her protagonist Parvati but also a whole generation of her female ancestors. Parvati’s insanity is the reflection of the inhuman treatment that she suffers at the hands of her homosexual husband and the society.

Both novels are the accounts of feminine triumph highlighting women’s strength, resilience, adaptability and spirit against all odds. Besides this, there is an uninhibited celebration of women’s sexuality and beauty on one hand and a rebellion against a purely sexual identity on the other.

Keywords:Empowerment, Eminent Women, Experience.

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R.Kaleeswari, M.A., M.Phil.
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