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Volume 17:8 August 2017
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Women’s Identity in Patriarchal Society:
A Case Study of Mother of 1084

Sumitra Meghwal, M.Phil. Research Scholar


Abstract

A woman plays an important role in family and society. She is always ready to help her children and family as per the norms established by society. Women’s identity is constructed by the society and they have to live under this and with this. Women are considered weak and limited to cooking, eating and caring children as well as her family in patriarchal society. Mahasweta is one of the famous writers of India; she depicted many issues related to women and tribal society. In Mahasweta Devi’s work, we can see these types of themes like suppressed women, exploited woman and we also get the glimpse of patriarchal society, etc. The novel Mother of 1084 was written by Mahasweta Devi in 1974.

In this fiction Mahasweta Devi depicted a bourgeois woman, who lived in the male dominated family, as well as a lower class woman, who is the mother of Somu (a friend of Brati). He also died in Naxalite movement.

This paper is an attempt to get a glimpse of the patriarchal society in the novel Mother of 1084, which is one of the famous novels of Mahasweta Devi. The paper also discusses the identity of women in this society. This paper identifies the hypocrisy of culture which imposes identity and roles to women.

Keywords: Patriarchal society, women identity, gender, Oppression, mother.

Mahasweta Devi

Mahasweta Devi was born in 1926, in Dhaka (modern Bangladesh). Many films like Mother of 1084, Rudali, etc. were based on Mahasweta Devi’s works and she was also honoured with many awards such as the ‘Gyaanpeeth Award’, ‘Sahitya Academi Award’, ‘Padmashree’, ‘Padma Vibhushan’, ‘Roman Magsaysay Awards’, etc. She started her life as a teacher and journalist. In 1984, she left her job and started writing and working for the uplift of tribals. Mahasweta Devi raised her voice through her writings for “Lodhas” and “Shabar” (tribes of West Bengal) and also raised her voice against bonded labour in Jharkhand and South-Bihar. Most of the themes of her writings were about poor people and against discrimination of tribal people of India. Mahasweta Devi's first novel Jhansi ki Rani was published in 1956. In this novel she has mentioned the bravery of India's ‘Veerangana’ Rani Laxmi Bai. She tried to tell that the woman is not less than a man.

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Sumitra Meghwal, M.Phil. Research Scholar
Department of Slavonic and Finno-Ugrian Studies
University of Delhi
Delhi 110007
India
sumitra.jnu@gmail.com

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