Linguistics and Literature Studies Vol. 1(4), pp. 206 - 213
DOI: 10.13189/lls.2013.010405
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The Dynamics of Protest in Post Independence Indian English Women Fiction

Lata Mishra ^*
Department of English,Government KRG Autonomous PG Girls' College,Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh.

ABSTRACT

Indian English women fictionists' perceptions of women's liberation and autonomy are deeply entrenched in the Indian women's situated-ness within the socio-cultural and economic spaces and paradigms of the nation. This paper studies the fiction of four representative novelists from India, writing in English language. Their women protagonists firmly refuse to become prisoners of orthodoxies, fossilized traditions and stereotypically idealized identities. These fictionists cast a sharp look at the fissures in the structural dynamics of society, functioning to the disadvantage of the female of the species. Protest in women's fictional narrative articulates both the existence of the dominant power structure and the female desire to disavow and defy that structure.

KEYWORDS
Protest, Resistance, Silence, Sexual liberation, Women, Society, Indian English Fiction

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(a). IEEE Format:
[1] Lata Mishra , "The Dynamics of Protest in Post Independence Indian English Women Fiction," Linguistics and Literature Studies, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 206 - 213, 2013. DOI: 10.13189/lls.2013.010405.

(b). APA Format:
Lata Mishra (2013). The Dynamics of Protest in Post Independence Indian English Women Fiction. Linguistics and Literature Studies, 1(4), 206 - 213. DOI: 10.13189/lls.2013.010405.