Feministic Views of Kavery Nambisan’s A Town Like Ours
Journal Title: Notions A Journal of English Literature - Year 2017, Vol 0, Issue 3
Abstract
This paper focuses on the suppression, oppression and self- determination of women characters in the novel A Town Like Ours. The author Kavery Nambisan has given voice to Rajakumari, a retired whore to speak on the suppression of voiceless women in the society. She is abused as chudayil by her father; the emotional violence has forced her to follow aunty and later prostitution. The early marriage of Saroja to a dull wit Vasu, made her suffer in domestic and emotional violence in her everyday life. The creative art of Kripa is considered as offensive by her husband who tries to suppress her from exhibiting it in the art exhibition. Women characters in the novel are subjected to domestic violence at their early ages due to lack of education and economic dependence on men either father or husband or in-laws. They wish to liberate themselves from the domination and violence against them but fall as a victim for their survival.
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Padmavathy. G
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