Female Characters in the Novels of Salman Rushdie and Rohinton Mistry: Subaltern Subjects’ Resistance and Its Limits.

2018 ◽  
Vol 130 ◽  
pp. 19-37
Author(s):  
Sukjoo Sohn
Keyword(s):  
Salman Rushdie ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Rohinton Mistry

scholarly journals A Study of Cultural conflict and trauma of the protagonist in Amitav Ghose’s The Glass Palace

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (11) ◽  
pp. 140-152
Author(s):  
Dr.K. Jaya ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Women Characters ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Salman Rushdie ◽  
Caste System ◽  
Cultural Conflict ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Amitav Ghosh ◽  
Humanistic Approach ◽  
Entire World

Amitav Ghosh is one of the most popular novelists of the period, with an amazing intelligence of place, history and politics. Ghosh has joined the ranks of notable novelists such as Monohar Malgonkar, Shashi Tharoor, Khushwant Singh, Salman Rushdie, Chaman Nahal, and others. In Ghosh’s novels, one may detect a feeling of historical realism. Ghosh’s writings are characterised by a strong desire for strong identifications and race relations. Amitav Ghosh recognises that society must be reformed from problems such as caste system, gender discrimination, ill-treatment of women, child marriages, poverty, exploitation, and demonic tradition, among others. Ghosh’s humanistic approach provides voice to the forgotten and lowly women characters in his works. He wants to free the entire world from the squabbles of caste, race, gender, religion, untouchability, and geographical dislocation that obstruct human development. It is also demonstrated how the sacrifices of marginalised and female characters have gone unnoticed in the pages of history. This paper examines the Cultural conflict and trauma of the protagonist in AmitavGhose’s The Glass Palace.

scholarly journals Female characters in the novel The Moor’s Last Sigh as the key element to revealing Indian identity

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Salman Rushdie ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Indian Identity ◽  
Indian Origin ◽  
Historical Processes ◽  
Artistic Images ◽  
The Way

The article is dedicated to the analysis of female characters in the novel The Moor’s Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie. Our aim is to understand better the evolution of artistic images by highlighting and researching the means the author uses for revealing the «nature» and «socialization» of a woman. The novel appeals to the understanding of a woman’s place in the socio-historical processes of the modern world. The author reveals a woman’s identity which is formed under the influence of the globalization factors as well as other ones. India’s modern history becomes the background for the evolution of the female characters. Salamn Rushdie is an English writer of an Indian origin who reveals in front of a reader bright and unique India, while he himself is caught between two cultural worlds – his native Indian and acquired European. In order to reveal the evolution of female characters, we will scrutinize the way in which the author describes motherhood and love in their lives.

scholarly journals Exploring the Various Cultural Practices in Indian Writings

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4S4) ◽  
pp. 9-11
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Salman Rushdie ◽  
Cultural Tradition ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Community Or ◽  
Rohinton Mistry ◽  
The World ◽  
Jhumpa Lahiri ◽  
Similar Experience ◽  
The Universe

Culture is a community or set or group of people that has similar experience in which the inidividuals belonging to it perceive the universe. It constitutes aggregates of people based on various factors such as race, religion, nationality, gender, class, etc.. Indian tradition is one of the oldest and unique in the world. It combines the diverse linguistic and cultural tradition which exists within the country. Indian writers like Vikram Seth, Jhumpa Lahiri, Salman Rushdie, Vikas Swarup, David Davidar, Rohinton Mistry express opinions to their nations through history, tradition, culture and other controversial yet important problems in their fictions. This paper focuses on the issue of multiculturalism and cultural assimilation in literature. Lahiri has shown the need to go beyond the man made boundaries like culture, religion, race and nation acknowledge the universal aspects of human through her writings. The novel, Lowland reflects the globalised, multicultural and transnational culture.

Socio –Political Concept In Rohinton Ministry’s A Fine Balance

Think India ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-203
Author(s):  
JOSEPH MAYAKUNTLA
Keyword(s):  
Salman Rushdie ◽  
Bharati Mukherjee ◽  
Indian Diaspora ◽  
Indian English ◽  
Amitav Ghosh ◽  
Rohinton Mistry ◽  
Political Concept ◽  
The World ◽  
The Galaxy ◽  
Family Matter

‘Holding this  book  in your hand, sinking back in your soft arm-chair, your will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me and after you have read this story of great misfortunes, you will no doubt dine well, blaming the author for your own  insensitivity, accusing him of wild exagger-tragendy is not a fiction all is true’. Honor’s de Balzac, le p’ere Goriot Rohinton Mistry is an important figure in contemporary common wealth s literature and he occupies a significant position among the writers of Indian diaspora. Mistry like Rushdie and many other Indian English writer is an “émigré” who left India in 1970’s to live in Canada. He is the best-known indo-Canadian novelist, his novels namely such a long journey, a fine balance and family matter have been best sellers and received international a wards. Mistry belongs to the burgeoning crop of Indian novelist writing in English to place him rightly among the great Indian English writers in the words of the santwana haldar.“A glowing star in the galaxy that contains luminaries such as vs. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, Shashi Tharoor, Vikram Seth and Bharati Mukherjee to mention a few Rohinton Mistry has drawn the attention of the world as an absorbing writer of human experience.” (Santwana, 2006:7)

Enforcing Performance: Disciplining Girls in British Co-educational Boarding School Stories, 1928–58

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-138
Author(s):  
CLARE HOLLOWELL
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
Educational Setting ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
School Stories ◽  
School Story ◽  
Girls School ◽  
A Site

This paper examines girls and power in British co-educational boarding school stories published from 1928 to 1958. While feminist scholars have hailed the girls’ school story as a site of potential resistance to constricting gender roles, the same can not be said of the co-educational school story. While the genres share many tropes and characterisation, the move from an all-female world to a co-educational setting allows the characters access to a narrower range of gender roles, and renders the female characters significantly less powerful. The disciplinary structures of the co-educational schools, mirroring those in real life, operate in a supposedly progressive manner that in fact removes girls from access to power.

Maritime Fantasies and Gender Space in Three Shakespearean Comedies

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-37
Author(s):  
Wai Fong Cheang
Keyword(s):  
Female Characters ◽  
Merchant Of Venice ◽  
Twelfth Night ◽  
The Merchant Of Venice ◽  
The Tempest ◽  
Gender Space ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Gender And Space

Abstract Laden with sea images, Shakespeare‘s plays dramatise the maritime fantasies of his time. This paper discusses the representation of maritime elements in Twelfth Night, The Tempest and The Merchant of Venice by relating them to gender and space issues. It focuses on Shakespeare‘s creation of maritime space as space of liberty for his female characters.

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