A WOMAN’S QUEST FOR IDENTITY: A FEMINIST ANALYSIS OF SHASHI DESHPANDE’S THE DARK HOLDS NO TERRORS
Journal Title: International Journal of English and Literature (IJEL) - Year 2017, Vol 7, Issue 1
Abstract
Woman is neither biologically nor intellectually inferior to man; but traditionally, in human civilization, she has been treated inferior to man. She has been given the secondary status in the society and is not recognized as a human with an identity of her own. ‘Feminism’, the anti-patriarchy movement arises and studies the women problems thereby creating awareness. Actions which include feminist literature among others which seek to liberate women from the subordination and exploitation of man and to construct and egalitarian society can be back dated to the 1960s. Sashi Despande, a prominent feminist novelist whose novel ‘The Dark Holds No Terrors’ is analyzed. The objective of this paper portrays the psychological problems that a career oriented woman encounters in her life. The crisis is because of the darkness that persists in one’s mind. One must come out of this terror and face the problems boldly with courage. Methodologies such as Simon De Beauvoir criticism is adopted in meeting the objectives. The research will be done in the perspective of feminist theory of Simon De Beauvoir’s The Second Sex
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SYEDA SABA BATOOL
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