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Feminist Appreciation of Jahnavi Barua’s Undertow
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Jahnavi Barua in her 2020 novel Undertow narrates a family sagawhere the relations are estranged due to the daughter’s decision tomarry outside her caste. The novel can be read as the story of threewoman characters– Usha Goswami, Rukmini Goswami and LoyaAlex. These three women are blood relatives; however, they do notshare a common bond of love amongst them. Usha dies withoutaccepting her daughter Rukmini’s marriage; thus, Rukmini’s daughterLoya does not know her grandmother. Rukmini lives an abandonedlife and does not even know about her mother’s death. It is Loya whogoes to her maternal grand parents’ home and claims her mother’splace in it. All the three women seem to follow their own ideologiesand their thoughts and actions provide a suitable set to explore theirposition as a woman. Therefore, the aim of the paper is to explorewhether their decisions are ignited by patriarchy or not and to studythe novel as a feminist text.
Title: Feminist Appreciation of Jahnavi Barua’s Undertow
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Jahnavi Barua in her 2020 novel Undertow narrates a family sagawhere the relations are estranged due to the daughter’s decision tomarry outside her caste.
The novel can be read as the story of threewoman characters– Usha Goswami, Rukmini Goswami and LoyaAlex.
These three women are blood relatives; however, they do notshare a common bond of love amongst them.
Usha dies withoutaccepting her daughter Rukmini’s marriage; thus, Rukmini’s daughterLoya does not know her grandmother.
Rukmini lives an abandonedlife and does not even know about her mother’s death.
It is Loya whogoes to her maternal grand parents’ home and claims her mother’splace in it.
All the three women seem to follow their own ideologiesand their thoughts and actions provide a suitable set to explore theirposition as a woman.
Therefore, the aim of the paper is to explorewhether their decisions are ignited by patriarchy or not and to studythe novel as a feminist text.
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