Women Have Equal Right to Get Their Voices Heard As Men in the Novel of Kamala Markandaya with Special Reference to Nectar in a Sieve

Monika  Sharma

Women Have Equal Right to Get Their Voices Heard As Men in the Novel of Kamala Markandaya with Special Reference to Nectar in a Sieve

Exploring Female Identity in Kamala Markandaya's Novels

by Monika Sharma*,

- Published in Journal of Advances and Scholarly Researches in Allied Education, E-ISSN: 2230-7540

Volume 5, Issue No. 10, Apr 2013, Pages 0 - 0 (0)

Published by: Ignited Minds Journals

ABSTRACT

Indian novelists in English have presenting woman as the centre of concern in their novels. A woman’s search for identity is a recurrent theme in their fiction. Kamala Markandaya is one of the finest and most distinguished Indian novelists in English of the post-colonial era who is internationally recognized. She has achieved a world-wide distinction by winning Asian prize for her literary achievement in 1974.

KEYWORD

women, equal rights, voices, Kamala Markandaya, Nectar in a Sieve, novel, Indian novelists, identity, fiction, post-colonial era