Self Realization Of Women : Novels Of Githa Hariharan

Considering the importance of the literature work, in the following writing. Two literary attempts will be made to make a comparison and to highlight

Women in India were unaware of their miserable condition. It is in the post independence period the women’s quest for identity of her own commenced. The 20th century saw the shift from outer to inner sensibilities and no one can better understand a man or woman better a feminine writer. In modern English fiction a number of women novelists have arrived on the literary scene, they have set out making new forays in to the world of women. Nayantara Sahgal being a feminist writer has emphasized in her novels on freedom and a new definition of the New Women. Sahgal’s heroines are well aware of the injustice done to them in their marriage and they come out of this traditional bond.

So is the case of Sarah, the heroine of the novel who stands between the poles of India and England. Sarah is one of the best women characters of all Anita Desai’s novel. She is weak but possesses steady voice. Sarah, Adit’s wife, represents for reconciliatory approach between East and West. She becomes a victim of psychic and social alienation. Sarah oscillates between her

She is a born storyteller who proved her sustained creativity with the novel form. She is one of the widely read post–independence Indian English writers who write consciously of the issues that concern the educated middle class woman in Indian society. She attempts to closely analyze man-woman relationship within the perimeters of family and the contemporary social set-up. She primarily focuses on the captivating problems and the suffocating environs of her heroines, who struggle hard in this malicious and callous male-dominated world to discover their true identity. Shashi Deshpande's first book was The Legacy, a collection of short stories, and since then she has published dozens of stories. The authentic recreation of India, the outstanding feature of her stories, is a distinct feature of her novels also. There is nothing sensational or exotic about her India—no Maharajahs or snake charmers. She does not write about the grinding poverty of the Indian masses; she describes another kind of deprivation—emotional. The woman deprived of love, understanding, and companionship is the center of her work. She shows how traditional Indian society is biased against woman, but she recognizes that it is very often women who oppress their sisters, though their values are the result of centuries of

Writing can present a lot of messages to it readers and audiences. It conveys a message that allows one to see what is their role and identity in society. The way they convey their message is by presenting their own language into their writing.The use of language in writing creates and identity in the act or experience of writing. As it is shown in the text How it feels to be forcibly fed by Djuna Barnes, The Shawl by Cynthia Ozick, and Tlilli, Tlapalli/ The path of the Red and Black Ink by Gloria Anzaldua.

Today, fiction being the most powerful form of literary expression, has acquired a impressive position in Indian literature in English. It is generally believed that the novel is the most appropriate literary form

In this article the researchers goal was to allow discussion to some of methodological, theoretical and ethical issue in the fieldwork. However, Richardson 1995 as the article illustrated solved the problem with “writing-stories” since in post-structural, social context influences our writing, so we can ethically extend our reflexivity to the study of our writing practice. She stated that instead of “hiding the struggle, concealing the very human labor that creates the text, writing-stories would reveal emotional, social, physical, and political bases of the labor”

Anita Desai is an Indian novelist and short story writer. She is known for her sensitive portrayal of the inner feelings of her female characters. Many of her novels explore tensions between family members and the alienation of middle-class women. In her later novels, she wrote on varied themes such as German anti-Semitism, the demise of traditions, and Western stereotypical views of India.

Writing is always considered as voice of soul since it helps writers to depict their point of view. Writing is basically an art which helps the writers to express themselves just like painters. It is often depicted that writing is a gift which helps writers in presenting their ideas to the world. In the article “Write till you drop”, author has urged the writers to be creative and think out of the box. She thinks that this is necessary for evolution of writing itself since it would not only help writers but would also attract audience. In this essay I am going to express my opinion regarding the originality and fantasy of writers as articulated by

Her heroines are sensitive, intelligent and career-oriented. Study of her novels reveals how poignantly, she expresses the frustration and disappointments of women who experience social and cultural oppression in the male-dominated society. Shashi Deshpande started her writing career all of a sudden. In her own terms: “There was really nothing. It was very strange. May be it was there waiting inside and suddenly at one moment, it came out. Until then, I was looking around to see what I could do. I was very unhappy not doing anything, just looking after the home and children. It was perhaps a kind of claustrophobic existence. I could feel something building up in me and that caused the outburst. Otherwise, it would have perhaps led to a breakdown.”(“Denying the otherness” II) Her novels are autobiographical in nature depicting her own experiences of the educated middle class Indian women’s predicament and they tend to be gender specific. That Long Silence is a saga of suppressed women prisoned in the room of silence. It is Jaya’s journey in search of one’s true self who confronts the gender oriented traditional

The articles “Voicing the Feminine Within: A Journey through the Life Narrative of A. Revathi”, Writing a Life Between Gender Lines: Conversations with A.Revathi about her autobiography The Truth About Me: A Hijra Life Story”, Gender Geometry: A Study of A. Revathi’s autobiography The Truth About Me: A Hijra Life Story and the interview Voice of Visibility by NithinMayanth are the only works directly based on Revathi’s autobiography The Truth About Me: A Hijra Life Story, the primary text of this research.

Literary writing is a process; sharing the written word on paper for a reader to join in the vision of what is written. The progression to allow another to imagine the concepts that are developed from one’s mind. For instance, imagine a beautiful stream flowing through a red rock canyon, twisting, curving, traveling over dirt, rocks, plants, moving with the insects and animals along the way. As the stream is moving, it travels through a bed of orange flowers, that sway with the water as it moves through the flowers and one drop remains, standing in the sunlight. The reader understands what is happening with the water, views the flowers, the job that it is performing, the path that it is journeying through. For this exercise, the reader has the necessary tools and abilities to participate’ the outcome is for the reader to become a partner in the vision, the overall priority is simply “seeing” in the mind’s eye of a beautiful

Thus, to give voice to the suffocated psyche and suppressed desire of woman and lay bare ambitions and frustrations and soothe the aches and pains has been primary focus in Deshpande’s writing. Her works show that compromise is what characterizes the life of the common run of the middle-class women in India. Unable to defy social conventions or traditional morality,

The political and social events of the sixties and the seventies along with growing opportunities of education and employment for women encourage women belonging to the urban middle class to engage in literary activities. The thematic concerns of these women writers have been cantering around women related issues. The social setting for most of these writings is the urban middle class and the protagonist is, more often than not, a woman. Indian Culture treats women with utmost reverence. Women are identified with Adi Shakti or the primordial energy. Woman’s avatar as mother treated as highest manifestation of human relationship; It is the mother who gets precedence over all other principles of life including father and god in importance. She

While feminists have been using literature to spread their beliefs and to advocate gender equality for centuries, science fiction as a genre is traditionally masculinist in its approach to the ideology of humanity. Within science fiction texts, human values are frequently represented by white male protagonists who become capable of overcoming natural limitations while women are reduced to insignificant supporting roles. Feminism seeks to counter such sexist depictions of humanity, and although such movements have obtained impressive momentum, much of the focus has historically been placed on women in the western world. Postcolonial feminism marked a transition away from a singular focus on middle class western women to campaign for the rights of women of color and developing nations. India in particular is and always has been governed under a strictly masculine hegemony that presents women with numerous cultural challenges such as discrimination and a lack of access to education. Rokeya Shekhawat Hossain is a feminist writer who was well ahead of her time as the themes portrayed in her most notable short story “Sultana’s Dream” coincide with the postcolonial feminist movement that would take rise over fifty years after the publication of her work. The article “Feminist Theory and Science Fiction” by Veronica Hollinger outlines several different approaches and general structures feminist science fiction authors undertake to promote their feminist agendas. Although Hollinger