Arup Kumar Mondal The University of Burdwan, Burdwan, West Bengal, India. Abstract: Vijay Tendulkar’s Silence! The Court is in Session theorizes the subdued condition of women-folk in the post-independence Indian scenario. Benare, the school-teacher who is trying to come out as an independent woman falls a victim to the patriarchal mouse-trap. She only hopes to…
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A Present Voice from the Past: Revisionist Mythmaking in Pratibha Ray’s Yajnaseni
Anila Chandran Research Scholar, Department of English, Sree Sankara University of Sanskrit, Kalady, Kerala. Revision is a feminist strategy of subverting patriarchal values. It can be a re-interpretation of the andocentric myths from the feminist angle. Women writers redefine women from the feminist perspective. They review the image of women which the patriarchy has popularized….
Revisionist Myth Making as a Means of Countering Patriarchy in That Long Silence
Sonima K K Assistant Professor in English St.Joseph’s College Irinjalakuda Thrissur Kerala Sita following her husband into exile, Savitri dogging Death to reclaim her husband, Draupadi stoically sharing her husband’s travails… No, what have I to do with these mythical women? I can’t fool myself. (That Long Silence 11) In a fictional career spanning two…
In the Face of Enemy within the Four Walls: Women in Khaled Hosseini’s a Thousand Splendid Suns
Jamsheed Ahmad Ph.D Scholar Dept of English AMU, Aligarh 202002, India. Patriarchy has different reincarnations in different cultures and it has its various hues and colours and manifests itself in different societies in their specific customs, value systems, worldviews and various social discourses. Novel and specially the realistic novel is one particular form of discourse…