Dr. Suranjana Bhadra Assistant Professor of English, M.U.C Women’s College, Burdwan, (Affiliated to The University of Burdwan)West Bengal. India. Caught in the gyres of cultural politics, woman in the realm of theatre is the “gendered subaltern,” (Ashcroft 8) produced in the social discourse by and for men but mercilessly castigated from the domain of cultural…
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Making of the New Woman in Shashi Deshpande’s Novels
Dr. Abhilash Nayak Indian women, unlike their western counterparts, have always been socially and psychologically oppressed, sexually colonized and biologically subjugated against a male-dominant social set-up. Any attempt by a woman to rise above the oppressive forces rooted in the middle class margins has either been curbed mercilessly or ignored in the name of social…