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Item Exploring Female Identity: A Comparative Study of the Selected Novels of Shashi Deshpande and Mridula Garg(Central University of Punjab, 2019) Nancy; Sen, Rajinder KumarFemale identity is a very complicated concept in the contemporary era. In addition to that, it becomes more complicated when discussed in reference to gender socialisation, violence, and exploitation. Women have been viewed and perceived within the constructed patriarchal structure of gender difference. In the domain of patriarchal culture, the woman is a social construct. The present research work tries to probe into the silences, subordination and voices of exploited women by undertaking a comparative study of the selected novels of Shashi Deshpande and Mridula Garg by using feminism as a theoretical framework. The contemporary writes are critiquing the unspoken voices to explore their exploitation in various domains. Feminism is a highly innovative concept representing a significant departure from the traditional mode of critical evaluation. In the selected novels both the writers represent the series of female characters who have exploited. They project realistically the women’s plight and exploitation in the patriarchal society. It explores how men establish their masculine power and fulfil their desire by assaulting women. Through the feminist theory, the present study tries to explore the female identity which is constructed by the socio-cultural aspect.Item Struggle for identity comparative study of cry, the peacock and home(Central University of Punjab, 2013) Romana, Khushwinder Kaur; Kaur, ZameerpalThe present dissertation scrutinises the construction of female identity in Indian society in Anita Desai's novel Cry, The Peacock and Manju Kapur' novel Home. It has been divided in four chapters. The first chapter deals with the key-concepts of Feminism, in which background of western feminism, three waves of feminism, schools of feminist thought and Indian feminism is described. Second chapter analyse the multi-facetedness and constructedness in the identity of Maya in the novel Cry, The Peacock. Anita Desai depicts the protagonist of her novel to be deeply embroiled in the quest for her real self. She is trying to find it in her social, personal and intimate relations. Maya cannot repress her urge to define the completeness in her identity through creation of a new life. The urge constantly nags at her and makes her conceive of her identity as incomplete. Third chapter of the dissertation focuses on Nisha's protest to establish her identity in Manju Kapur's novel Home. In this chapter the key- models of barrenness, dowry system, incestuous abuse, women education and economic independence of women are illustrated. Nisha, the protagonist of the novel is quite modern who discards the traditional thoughts of the society. In the fourth chapter conclusion is discussed with the comparative aspects of Anita Desai's novel Cry, The Peacock and Manju Kapur's novel Home. The conclusion tries to set up a common ground on which Cry, The Peacock and Home are compared. It presents the picture of contemporary Indian society in which women are yearning to ascertain their autonomous selves. The present study presents the plight of Indian women who are caught in traditions and conservative thoughts. It depicts the desire of woman for her autonomous self. The present study in itself is not complete but it brings into focus some issues of womenItem Mythico-patriarchal constructiuon of a women in githa hariharan's the thousand faces of night and mahasweta devi's stories draupadi and breast-giver(Central University of Punjab, 2013) Vandana; Saini, AlpnaThe present research offers a comparative study of Githa Hariharan's novel The Thousand Faces of Night and Mahasweta Devi's stories ''Draupadi'' and ''Breastgiver''. The focus of the analysis will be on the interpretative use of mythology from feministic perspective underlining women's oppression and predicament in a patriarchal society. Both the writers take mythological tales as patriarchal discourses with implied patriarchal stance and tend to revise these tales with altered ends to give voice to the silenced female perspective. The study explores how by reinterpreting mythical tales from feministic perspective, both writers Githa Hariharan and Mahasweta Devi inclusively expose and question women's suppression in a male-dominated set up.Item The binding vine and the bluest eye: A comparative study from a feminist perspective(Central University of Punjab, 2015) Pahuja, Poonam; Kaur, ZameerpalFeminism in various forms and places has grappled with the question of gender, that is, of the power relationships among men and women. It is defined as cultural, economic and political movements that are focused towards establishing legal protection and complete equality for the women. It focuses on the gender politics, power relations and sexuality and gives voice to the problems of women. There are various authors all over the world who portray the sufferings of women in their creative works. The foremost objective of this research is to analyze the societal norms of gender, race, class, sexuality, and other social inequalities within the reference of the writings of Shashi Deshpande's The Binding Vine and Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. Deshpande (Indian novelist) and Morrison (Afro-American novelist) are two significant women novelists who have made a bold attempt in raising voice against the frustrations and disappointments of women in the patriarchal world. Both Shashi Deshpande and Toni Morrison portray the concealed world of women in their fictional narratives. They depict that women either in India or in America or in any other part of the world, or belonging to any strata of the society suffer the same plight due to the patriarchal setup. A thematic approach from feminist perspective has been adopted for this study.