Negotiating Female Agency in Manju Kapur's A Married Woman
Keywords:
Lesbianism, Emancipatory, IdentityAbstract
Manju Kapur, a famous Indian women writer in English, focuses on the issue of lesbianism in her second novel A Married Woman. The Lesbian sexuality re-defines the very idea of ‘new woman’. The author theorizes women’s resistance and proves that women are capable of endangering subjective and emancipatory epiphanies. Women are capable of renouncing the social compass that directs identity formation and articulate self-composed discourses.
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