This book Feminine Aesthetics of Indian Women Writers is an enquiry into the factors that bind women to their traditional roles. This book delves deep into women's problems and raises questions like why women are unable to be completely free of constraints inspite of the monumental efforts of various reformers from time immemorial.
In this book four women writers and their novels are analysed from the feministic perspective. The writers are Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Shobha De, Arundhati Roy and Bharathi Mukherjee. Indians by birth, three of the writers are immigrants except Shobha De. Irrespective of their life abroad their Indian sensibility is obvious in their portrayals. If not whole the partial presence of Indian feminity is revealed in their works. These findings are presented in five chapters.
The first chapter is the introductory chapter that focuses on feminine aesthetics, feminine aesthetics in literature feminism, waves of feminism, nu-feminist trend, literature and feminism, Indian English fiction different feminist consciousness, biography of the selected authors, comparative analysis and awareness creation.
The second chapter patriarchy deals with various topics related to a society that is male oriented. Culture and patriarchy, pre-vedic partnership prototype emulation in literature, psycho-analysis of patriarchy, patriarchal interpretations of the text, patriarchal power politics, divorce–a social stigma degradation of honour and punishment and picking up the broken pieces of dharma.
The third chapter highlights on wifehood, heroworship cult, exploitation and dehumanization, Indian fiction and wifehood, domestic drudgery, male-centered household emotional incompatiability and scepticism and guilt.
The forth chapter deals with ideas like mohterhood, rearing responsibility maternal revivalism, altrustistic motherhood, reality of torment, a demanding obligation, maternal revivalism and reflection in literature.
The final chapter tries to find ways and means of exorcism of patriarchy, disentangling espousal confinement, emancipation from muddled motherhood and literarians as feminists.
This book is really a contribution to the field of feminism as it dissects various reasons for women's subordination and tries its best to find solutions for them. The innovative idea of the book is that it searches for solutions not outside but within women themselves.
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