An Overview on Feminist Study of Namita Gokhale and Anita Nair's Novels
Unveiling Women's Liberation in Indian English Novels
by Subhash Nautiyal*, Dr. Naresh Kumar,
- Published in Journal of Advances and Scholarly Researches in Allied Education, E-ISSN: 2230-7540
Volume 14, Issue No. 2, Jan 2018, Pages 1198 - 1200 (3)
Published by: Ignited Minds Journals
ABSTRACT
Feminism has been subtly handled in the massive work of English novels in India. Feminism is defined as cultural, economic and political movements that are focused towards establishing legal protection and complete equality for the women. In Indian writing feminism has been used as a modest attempt for evaluating the real social scenario as far as women are concerned. The Indian English novelists use oriental approaches of feminism. There are several novels in English literature of India that aptly portrays the actual status of the women in Indian societies. However, the modern aged women have realized that they are equally competent like the men and those they are not helpless. Unlike the past when men were considered as the sole bread earners, in today’s age, women too have become direct money earners of any household.
KEYWORD
feminist study, Namita Gokhale, Anita Nair, novels, English novels, India, cultural movements, economic movements, political movements, legal protection, equality, Indian writing, social scenario, women, oriental approaches, English literature, actual status, Indian societies, modern aged women, competent, helpless, sole bread earners, direct money earners, household
INTRODUCTION
Indian writing in English is currently very nearly 200 years of age. Notwithstanding, it is just generally that, it has gained the status of an independent writing for the most part because of the inventive endeavors of noticeable essayists in India. As Dr. M.K. Naik calls attention to, "Indian English writing started as an interesting side-effect of a significant experience in the late eighteenth century between a vigorous and venturesome Britain and a stale and tumultuous India."(Naik 1) because of this experience, F.W. Bain states that India a shriveled trunk all of a sudden shot out with outside foliage. One type of this foliage took was that of unique writing in English by Indians. However, shockingly enough, despite the fact that the Indians have been writing in English as right on time as the late eighteenth century, their writings were never considered as a piece of English writing nor were they viewed as an independent writing. The Indians' shyness and the Englishman's lack of interest were the undeniable purposes behind this situation. In his entering paper, "Contemporary, Indo-English Literature: An Approach" Amritjit Singh handles this issue and mentions an interesting objective fact: There is no uncertainty that there is no proof in India of a living tradition of communicated in English. Simultaneously, it's not possible for anyone to deny the way that the informed Indians utilize English for their scholarly expression. English is anything but an unknown dialect to us as we discuss say French, German or Russian. English has been truly and mentally embedded in our environment. In the event that despite everything anyone holds that English is an unknown dialect in India, he is plainly too diehard a person to be paid attention to. Additionally it is the innovative essayist's privilege to utilize a specific language for his expression. The decision of language on the piece of the author need not involve polemics. A.K. Ramanujan has something extremely adept to state in such manner, "I simply happen to write in English; it is for others to state whether it is any good or not.. I don't think individuals who compose have a decision in this issue." (Ramanujan 444) Kamala Das, another extraordinary Indian English writer, in her sonnet "An Introduction" communicates comparative perspectives:I speak three languages, write in two, dream in one. Don‘t write in English, they said. English isn't your mother-tongue. Why not disregard me pundits, companions, visiting cousins, every one of you? Why not let me communicate in any language I like? The language I talk progresses toward becoming mine (Das 76) Therefore, any Indian who writes in English is as much an Indian essayist as one writing in Hindi, Bengali, Kannada and so on. Henceforth, Indian writing in English is a piece of Indian literature. Dr. M.K. Naik has something extremely adept and noteworthy to state on this point: There is no uncertainty that there is no proof in India of a living tradition of communicated in English. Simultaneously, it's not possible for anyone to deny the way that the informed Indians utilize English for their scholarly expression. English is anything but an unknown dialect to us as we discuss say French, German or Russian. English has been truly and
person to be paid attention to. Additionally it is the innovative essayist's privilege to utilize a specific language for his expression. The decision of language on the piece of the author need not involve polemics. A.K. Ramanujan has something extremely adept to state in such manner, "I simply happen to write in English; it is for others to state whether it is any good or not.. I don't think individuals who compose have a decision in this issue." (Ramanujan 444) Kamala Das, another extraordinary Indian English writer, in her sonnet "An Introduction" communicates comparative perspectives:I speak three languages, write in two, dream in one. Don‘t write in English, they said. English isn't your mother-tongue. Why not disregard Me pundits, companions, visiting cousins, Every one of you? Why not let me communicate in Any language I like? The language I talk progresses toward becoming mine (Das 76) Therefore, any Indian who writes in English is as much an Indian essayist as one writing in Hindi, Bengali, Kannada and so on. Henceforth, Indian writing in English is a piece of Indian literature. Dr. M.K. Naik has something extremely adept and noteworthy to state on this point.
FEMINIST IN NAMITA GOKHALE AND ANITA
NAIR’S NOVELS
Indian ladies novelists writing in the late 1990s and the early many years of the 21st century are pushing ahead with solid and sure walks coordinating the pace of the world. They have cut their very own specialty for their inventiveness and singularity. These authors are perceived for depicting delicately a world that has in it ladies, and with substance wealthy in substance. Their ladies are genuine fragile living creature and blood heroes who are magnificent with their connections to their environment, their social orders, their families, their psychological cosmetics and themselves. These ladies novelists have utilized the story fiction as an incredible way to challenge the domineering practices of a sex based society. Woman's rights, subsequently, is quickly creating as a noteworthy basic belief system. It has risen as an idea that includes both a way of thinking and development for sociopolitical change dependent on basic examination of male benefit and lady's subjection inside a given society which gives a wide range on the women's activist composition, with spotlight on lady's inquiry and issue of sex.
REVIEW OF LITERATURE
In the correctional facilities they wouldn't eat and turned to craving strike. The ladies' development which therefore began to increase social and political rights built up a philosophy which was marked Feminism. As development Feminism needs to change the job of ladies as auxiliary natives and win for them equivalent status with men. They took Mary Wollstonecraft the law based scholar to be their guide, who in her life had challenged standards of sexual life. The Movement of occupations to have their own pay. Their development was then called 'Ladies Movement' which sounded rather ungainly. Subsequently in the twentieth Century the term Feminism came to be utilized. This new term with its 'ism' recommends that there is a belief system. Women's liberation doesn't confine itself to getting a privilege to cast a ballot. It looks to win for ladies equivalent status in varying social statuses. The women's activists presently requested the political rights, yet in addition evacuation of social and financial separation rehearsed against them. They disposed of the title 'Lady Movement' as an old sounding name and called themselves Feminists for whom vote was just an apparatus, however their genuine objective was finished social revaluation which should empower ladies communicate completely, with no mental, social impairment. They dislike twofold standard of ethical quality, one for men and the other for ladies. They ought to have chance to make progress in each circle of open life. In the West it is for the most part accepted that ladies are battling for correspondence, which truly implies cancelation of sex chain of importance in the male-commanded society. The term women's liberation came to be utilized in 1910, which demonstrated a development of ladies for their privileges and opportunity. Prior to that in the 19thCentury England there was a development of ladies for metro rights, social opportunity, advanced education, social welfare and appropriate to cast a ballot. These ladies were called Suffragists, who were engaged with welfare exercises for ladies just as in a development for a privilege to cast a ballot. The 19thCentury Women's development identified with equivalent open door in training and business, and rights to property. Ladies at that point had no open door in training and work. They didn't have property rights in England. The suffragist development wound up global in the main decade of the twentieth Century. In England, Women activists held road shows and mass walks.
CONCLUSION
Feminism is forming into a significant basic philosophy. It has developed as an idea that encompasses both a philosophy and development for socio-political change based on basic analysis of male benefit and lady's subordination inside a given society which provides an expansive spectrum on the feminist composition, with focus on lady's question and issue of sexual orientation. Anita Nair is one such burn bearers of feminism in India. Namita Gokhale has joined the developing number of women writers from India, as Shashi Despande, Arundhati Roy, Githa Hariharan, and Shobha De on whom the picture of the suffering yet stoic women in had a significant effect. They stimulated the English language to suit representations and portrayal of what they felt about their women and their lives in post current India.
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Corresponding Author Subhash Nautiyal*
Research Scholar of OPJS University, Churu, Rajasthan