Socio-Political Ambience of Women Writers
Exploring the Socio-Political Dynamics in Indian Women's Fiction
by Inderjeet .*, Dr. Mukesh Kumar,
- Published in Journal of Advances and Scholarly Researches in Allied Education, E-ISSN: 2230-7540
Volume 4, Issue No. 7, Jul 2012, Pages 0 - 0 (0)
Published by: Ignited Minds Journals
ABSTRACT
Indian women novelists have turned towards the woman’s world with great introspective intensity and authenticity. They have launched a voyage within to explore the private consciousness of their women characters and to measure them. In the novel of Anita Desai and Nayantara Sahgal, women are no more goddesses they are human beings and move from bondage to freedom, from indecision to self-assertion, from weakness to strength. While these two women novelists deal with the urban upper class women, Shashi Deshpande delineates the middle class educated women to show that what man has made of woman. Her women are anti-patriarchal protagonists. Shobha De projects woman as a creative force that controls the dynamics of the society. Kamala Markandaya’s women lord over the male. Markandaya makes her woman a domineering professor, an active victimizer of an adolescent male. She pictures a woman’s world where the man is manipulated, purchased, commanded, exploited and taken around like a pet. There is a varied image of woman in the fiction by women. Nayantara Sahgal is acclaimed as the only political novelist, at least among women writers.
KEYWORD
women writers, Indian women novelists, introspective intensity, authenticity, private consciousness, women characters, bondage, freedom, self-assertion, weakness, urban upper class women, middle class educated women, anti-patriarchal, woman as a creative force, domineering professor, woman's world, manipulated, purchased, commanded, exploited, political novelist
