LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 18:9 September 2018
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Womanism in Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections

T. Aruna, Research Scholar and Dr. G. Aruna Devi


Courtesy: https://www.amazon.com/Corrections-Novel-Recent-Picador-Highlights-ebook/dp/B0022VV0RC

Abstract

Jonathan Earl Franzen, a renowned American novelist and essayist who won National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his third novel The Corrections. His novels illustrate the American society through satirical elements. His novels are based on familial confrontations, societal disputations, feminist perspectives, corporate malfeasance and post-modern ideas. He gives equal importance for both male and female characters. This paper focuses the women characters and their contribution towards their family.

Keywords: Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections, satirical elements, confrontations, disputations, malfeasance.

American Literature

The United States of America is a confluence of people, language, tradition and culture from various parts of the world. As a result of this different dimensions America came with its own social and cultural features. This influence made the country as ethnic and developed country. Likewise, language is also influenced from Britain and Spain. The Midwestern accent of the United States is considered as the standard language of America. So, the American Literary Tradition has become the substantial tradition of English Literature.

American Literature is highly influenced by English Literature. Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Paine are the political writers who pave way for other writers and it is notated as revolutionary period. Most of the literary works focus the American Dream; a set of standards includes democracy, liberty, equality and luxury. American Writers expose disenchantment after the World War I and at the end of World War II and many notable works written which gives form to American Literature.

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T. Aruna
Ph.D. Research Scholar

Dr. G. Aruna Devi
Assistant Professor of English

Department of English
Annamalai University
Annamalainagar
Tamilnadu
India

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