Volume : VIII, Issue : III, March - 2019

A STUDY OF POST-MODERNIST AND FEMINIST PROJECTIONS IN ANITA DESAI'S NOVELS

Dr. T. Selvakkumar

Abstract :

Anita Desai is the prestigious representative of Indian English Fiction. Her novels reveal the extreme complexities of human life. For centuries, women in the traditional social order and system have always been considered subservient to men. In patriarchal Bourgeois society, the matriarchal community has been “humiliated”, “afflicted”, “silenced” and “tortured” socially and economically. With the post–modernizing age, women began to see the universe with their own eyes and not through the male gaze. In India, with manifesting itself in struggle against patriarchy another inner revolution started manifesting itself in literature, especially woman’s writings. The voice of women began to vie with those of men. The purpose of my paper is to focus on the feminist message as articulated in Anita Desai’s well reputed novels, Cry the Peacock and Where Shall We Go This Summer? My intent is to examine critically how in the post–modern ear Indian women writers in English have highlighted women’s question. They have raised a fiery voice or initiated and inner revolution against the traditional customs and gender discrimination with a view to equalizing human rights. Considering, the femme fatale characters of Anita Desai, one of the most renowned Indian writers writing in English, especially to powerful and domineering female protagonists, Sita and Maya of Cry, the Peacock and Where Shall We Go This Summer? This paper proposes to draw attention to Desai’s works as exemplary instances of postmodern feminism.

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A STUDY OF POST-MODERNIST AND FEMINIST PROJECTIONS IN ANITA DESAI'S NOVELS, Dr.T.Selvakkumar PARIPEX - INDIAN JOURNAL OF RESEARCH : Volume-8 | Issue-3 | March-2019

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