Volume III Issue I January-March 2023

Name of Author : A Renukadevi, G Lavanya

Title of the paper : Post-Modern Feminist Ideology in Selected Novels By Nayantara Sahgul

Abstract: Being a statement that reflects society, literature is the mirror of life, and the characters are the authors representations of themselves. The struggles of men and women, particularly women, against oppression and injustice meted out to them in the guise of tradition and culture are the subject of Kiran Desai and Anita Desais works. The inalienable rights of the characters in Nayantara Saghuls novels are depicted in this papers discussion of those works. Nayantara Sahgal is a writer who is interested in feminism and a descendant of the tradition in which the goddess Saki is a symbol of female strength. Politicians, corporate moguls, foreign advisors, affluent people, journalists, and highly skilled individuals like ministers and ambassadors are all active in her fictitious universe. When a woman chooses to end a seventeen-year marriage, a political topic is frequently coupled with the themes of the man-woman connection, her marital troubles, her temperamental incompatibility, and the challenges brought on by her submissiveness. A divorced lady is constantly stigmatised, and others are curiously interested in her as if she had some sort of sickness that left pock scars. Nayantaras biggest worry is how to express oneself in a marriage. Marriage can suffer life-long damage if one partner is not sensitive enough to communicate, according to the author. In most countries, marriage is the unspoken rule, and in the postmodern world, very few people disagree with it. Sahgal depicts couples from three generations and explains how postmodern feminism affects their diametrically opposed relationships.

Keywords : Postmodernism, Feminism, Oppression against Women and Injustice

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Page No. : 45-47