LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 21:2 February 2021
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Feministic Perspective in Anita Nair’s Ladies Coupé

D. Ambika


Abstract

Anita Nair is a living postmodern Indian woman writer in English. As a woman writer, she goes in depth to find the inner mind of the depressed women by virtue of their feminine sensibility and psychological insight and brings to light their issues, which are the outcome of Indian women’s psyche and emotional inequalities in a male dominated society.

Anita Nair’s “Ladies Coupe” has turned out to be a great success. It is the story of a women’s search for freedom and women’s conditions in a male dominated society. The novel raises the questions whether the role of an Indian woman as a representative of other women, living under oppressive patriarchal systems in relation to cultural resistance, should be restricted only to their roles as wives and mothers. In this real world, woman’s role is limited to reproduction regardless of her own desires and needs. Hence, this paper tries to point out how Anita Nair projects Indian feminism and attitude through women characters in her novels.

Keywords: Anita Nair, Ladies Coupé, Feminism, Patriarchy, Self-identity, Patience, Balanced mind.

Introduction

Feminism emerged in the western world as a movement in support of the same rights and opportunities for women as for men. Feminism has been subtly handled in the massive work of English novels of India. Feminism is defined as a cultural, economic, and political movement that is focused towards establishing legal protection and complete equality for women. In Indian writing, feminism has been used as a humble attempt for evaluating the real social scenario as far as women are concerned. Today’s contemporary Indian English novelists are writing for the masses using the theme of feminism, which not only creates the interest among the readers but also affects them. Throughout the world, feminism has generated interest amongst the people and India is no exception.


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D. Ambika
Assistant Professor of English
Erode Sengunthar Engineering College
Perundurai, Erode -638 057
ambikasai901@gmail.com

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