Basudhara Roy Assistant Professor Department of English Karim City College Jamshedpur “The fetus in utero has become a metaphor for “man” in space, floating free, attached only by the umbilical cord to the spaceship. But where is the mother in that metaphor? She has become an empty space.” (Katz-Rothman, 1986: 114) Katz-Rothman’s concern over the…