Abstract

VIJAY TENDULKAR AS PRECURSOR OF POSTMODERN FEMINISM [WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO KAMLA]

Dr. Abha Sharma

Volume: 1 Issue: 1 2011

Abstract:

The postmodern feminism is an extension of the postmodern movement in literature. It arguably started in the early 1980’s, later it was termed as postmodern feminism. The Postmodern feminist thoughts challenge and discard various conceptual interpretations and definitions of femininity coined by earlier feminists. As per the modern feminist theory, the social and cultural systems are responsible for the present state of women, i.e. system makes a woman “a woman." The postmodern feminism breaks away from this thinking. It takes the woman as a debatable class. It is complicated by ethnicity, sexuality and other facets of identity. Thus, postmodern feminists deal with a broad range of global and culturally specific issues like female genital mutation in some parts of Africa, rape, specifically in marital relations, incest and prostitution and female infanticide. The postmodern feminist thought is highly individual oriented thought and it gives expression to various specific issues related to a woman in a particular culture and society. Today’s woman feels differently. She cannot identify herself to the traditional feminists albeit she broadly agrees to gender equality and end of gender discrimination as the goal of feminism.

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References

• FIVE PLAYS, Vijay Tendulkar,( Oxford University Press, Delhi), p. 34
• Ibid., p. 35
• Ibid., p. 46
• Ibid., p. 47
• Ibid., p. 52