JOURNEY INTO THE SELF: A READING OF ANITA NAIR’S “LADIES COUPE”
HARISREE H G
Research Scholar, All SAINTS’ College
Thiruvananthapum
Email:harisreehg@gmail.com
https://doi.org/10.33329/rjelal.7119.16

Abstract

In the wake of feminist movement in India, themes like women’s search of identity, quest for selfhood, relocating the self and awareness to seek a balance between tradition and modernity became popular in the works of male as well as female writers of the post-colonial Indian English fiction. With the turn of the century, the Indian English women novelists have surpassed their male counter parts outnumbering them quantitatively as well as by maintaining a high standard of literary writing, experimenting boldly with not only technique but also by incorporating tabooed subject matters in their novels and short stories. To this group belongs Anita Nair who has produced some remarkable works and in a little span of her career she has gained an international reputation. Anita Nair’s Ladies Coupe is the story of a woman’s search for strength and independence and focuses on the inner strength inherent in every woman. It is a voice to appreciate a voyage of self-consciousness to the realization of self and ultimately the reaffirmation of female identity against male domination.

Key Words: female sensibility, self consciousness, journey, womanhood etc.

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