Negotiating Female Agency in Manju Kapur's A Married Woman

Authors

  • Asha Rani Saharan Associate Professor of English Government P.G. College, Hisar , Haryana
  • Dr Rekha Beniwal Professor of English, Department of English, DCR University of Science and Technology, Murthal, Haryana

Keywords:

Lesbianism, Emancipatory, Identity

Abstract

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.

References

Kapur, Manju. A Married Woman. New Delhi: India Ink, 2002.

Nabar, Vrinda. Caste as Woman. New Delhi: Penguin, 1995.

Puri, Jyoti. Woman, Body, Desire in Post-colonial India: Narratives of Gender and Sexuality. New York: Routledge, 1999.

Sharma, Maya. Loving Women: Being Lesbian in Underprivileged India. New Delhi: Yoda Publication, 2006.

Shillong, Chris. The Body and Social Theory. New Delhi: Sage, 1993.

Thapan, Meenakshi. Living the Body. New Delhi: Sage, 2009.

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Published

01.04.2012

How to Cite

Asha Rani Saharan, & Rekha Beniwal. (2012). Negotiating Female Agency in Manju Kapur’s A Married Woman. Journal of Teaching and Research in English Literature, 3(4), 19–22. Retrieved from https://journals.eltai.in/index.php/jtrel/article/view/JTREL030405

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 4 (2012): April

Section

Research Articles

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