Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: Manju Kapur's A Married Woman is a novel that displays a spectrum of diverse cultural, sexual and gender identities.The novel opens up spaces that are self-reflexive on the line of democratic incorporation of voices of those in the fringes.At the same time, it reinterrogates the lines of division that we draw in terms of mainstream and queer, us and them, male and female, and the personal and the public.In a way, it will not be wrong to assert that the present paper argues and endorses the declarations at the beginning that the protagonist envisions the embrace of lesbianism as a protest to the patriarchal values by exploring the history of unique gender expressions throughout the country.
Source: SKIT Research Journal
Author: Nidhi Sharma
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Gender equality
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4384433366