The Goddess And The Nation : Mapping Mother India

Notably, McCurry’s neat and predictable photographs of India, taken over the course of 40 years, are more popular than Singh’s more realistic, chaotic and exciting images. Cole argues that this popularity is because of McCurry’s portrayal of places and people due to orientalism, based on conventional preconceptions of historical India. They are our colorful fantasies of old India realized on glossy

In the story “My Mother” Jamaica Kincaid shows the reader that the girl has an obsession with her mother. The mother has a power over the girl throughout the book. The girl looks back onto when she was younger and misses her relationship that she had with her mother. The author shows this through intensely lyrical images and showing the problematic intimacy between the girl and her mother.

Revolutionary Mothers demonstrates how the lives of women come into play during the Revolutionary War. The women throughout the book both influenced the war and are influenced by it. Carol Berkin has discussed into detail several different women’s lives and makes clear some of the obstacles that women face. She shows that men were not the only key characters in the war. She also does not focus mainly on colonial women, but also Native American women as well to show how they were affected too.

This paper attempts to examine the fictional projections of Indian girls, to see how they emerge in ideological terms. Their journeys from self-alienation to self-adjustment, their childhood struggles against the hypocrisies and monstrosities of the grown-up world, eventually demolishing the unjust male constructed citadels of power that hinder their progress- are the highlighted issues. The point of comparison between the two novels focused on here is the journey of Rahel in The God of Small Things and Sai in The Inheritance from a lonely childhood to a tragic adulthood passing through a struggle with the complex forces of patriarchal society. Both the novels portray the imaginativeness, inventiveness, independence, rebelliousness, wide-eyed wonder and innocence associated with these young girls.

During this particular time period, the mother’s guidance is essential to the type of lady this young girl will one day be classified as. The

In spite of the fact that the story is particularly about a West Indian mother's "sex preparing" her youthful little girl for her approaching female household part, it could be about any family, about any culture, and about any pre-adult girl's association with her mom. Its objectives, restrictions, mandates, cross examination, "how to's" and allegation propose the all inclusiveness of mother-little girl connections and the certainty

The long term effects of British colonization on the feminist movements in India and Nigeria can be seen through Katherine Mayo’s Mother India, the film, “Mother India”, Misty Bastian’s Vultures of the Market Place, and Falola and Paddock’s The Women’s War of 1929. In India, imperialism delayed the advancement of the feminist movement due to the priority of the nationalist movement. In Nigeria, imperialism spurred the feminist movement due to the autonomy of the women. Throughout this essay I will compare and contrast the feminist movements in India and Nigeria, in light of British colonization.

The concept of the Hindu Goddess has maintained scholar’s curiosity for many years. As the Hindu Goddess is able to take many forms she also gains a variety of interchangeable representations. The Hindu Goddess is worshiped all across the world as she has developed a kind of feminist representation that many women are looking for in Religion today. This essay is going to focus on the concept of the Hindu Goddess and the variety of meaningful attributes she has in Hinduism, as well as the Important relationship and connectedness between the Hindu Goddess and the Hindu woman. What connects the Hindu Woman and the Hindu Goddess includes the connection of the female body, the importance of the Hindu Goddess as a powerful symbol to woman, and the importance of the female and male relationship.

The short story Girl by Jamaica Kincaid, gives us a keen illustration of the relationship between a mother and daughter living in a post-colonial society. Although the Mother’s intention is to pass on helpful advice, we can see where the mother imposes her traditions on her daughter. Also, we can also deduce that the relationship between the two is molded by the expected behavior of women in society. The expected behavior of the girl by society is what subsequently leads the mother to make such forceful demands of her daughter. In this essay, I will focus on the role of women in society, and how tradition affects the relationship between the mother and daughter.

Using the elements of fiction and truth a mass amount can be gained from understanding how women fit in with the government/patriarchy. From novels comparably, A Passage to India and A Handmaid’s Tale, these two reflect different times: a realistic time of Indian Imperialism and a Utopian fantasy that could indubitably become the future of tomorrow. How do they correspond with the role of women? Both either represent or differ from the true, unseen representation of women amongst the power of the elite, against the suppressors of the minority, and the

Jamaica Kincaid’s text provides an uncomfortable, one sided discussion between mother and daughter. Portraying the grand rules that a mother sets up for her daughter, which she must obey in order to be accepted in the society. A narrative that connects womanhood in a way a woman must portray herself to the world.

How does this work give insight to the culture studied? The style of this piece and the elements represent the religious law in India at the

In Edna’s Creole society, she does not fit the mold of a “mother-woman”(8). Mother-women are mothers before they are women; they wholly devote themselves to their children and husbands. Edna, although, a loving mother does not solely base her life around her children like

The books I’ve chosen to review are set on two different continents. This makes the comparison of the lives of women across the world more efficient and broader. What makes the comparison more practical, realistic and interesting is the fact that the characters in the two books 'The Woman Warrior ' and 'Wild ', lived in the same century. The authors specifically bring out the duties and the expectation that mothers were held to in the upbringing of their daughters as at that time and place. The authors, however, present the picture of motherhood in a fairly narrow view. They ignore the role of mothers in the upbringing of their sons and instead dwell on their duties and responsibilities in the bringing up of their daughters (Kingston & Gordon 2005). Therefore, I chose to compare how the theme of motherhood has been portrayed in the two ethnically diverse texts.

Feminism in India is a set of movements which defining, establishing and defending equal political, economic and social rights and equal opportunities for Indian women. Feminist criticism was not inaugurated until late in the 1960s.Behind it, however lie two centuries of struggle for the recognition of women’s cultural roles and achievements and for women’s social and political rights marked by such books as Mary Wollstone Craft’s A Vindication Of The Rights Of Women (1792), John Stuart Mill’s The Subjection Of Women (1869), and the American Margaret Fuller’s Women in The Nineteenth Century