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WOMEN S AGONIES UNDER SOCIAL RESTRICTIONS IN SELECTED NOVELS BY KAMALA MARKANDAYA

Nada Kadhim Hussein

Volume: 10 Issue: 3 2020

Abstract:

This paper aims to investigate women’s agoniesunder social restrictions in Nectar in a Sieveand Two Virgins by Kamala Markandya. Both novels reveal women’s suffering in a village, deal with several social phenomena as the traditional cultural practices, the impact of economic conditions and people’s trails to change but in two different perspectives.Nectar in a Sieve deals with women’s sufferings to overcome poverty and survive facing many inherent conventions whereas Two Virgins discusses women’s sufferings in their attempts to balance between heritage and modernity.Markandya with her feminine sensibility is one of the greatest Indo-Anglican writers who takes upon herself the task of crusade against established traditions about women but still rejects any odd moral change. KrishaRao (1972) confirms that “in the development of Indo-Anglican novel, the feminine sensibility has achieved an imaginative selfsufficiency which merits recognition in spite of its relatively manifestation”. This paper also reveals different consequences of social injustice according to ill traditional practices in traditional oriented societies.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.37648/ijrssh.v10i03.038

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