How are Indian Female Writers responding to the issue of patriarchal hegemony in their writing?
Writers like Tasleema Nasreen , Arundhati Roy, Shobha De ,Urvashi Bhutalia, Anita Desai’s novels and genres emerged which reflected, explicitly and implicitly such thoughts. Thus Amrita Pritam’s “The revenue stamp”, Nayantara Sahgal’s “Storm in Chandigarh” etc are examples. Most of their woman protagonists are educated woman groaning under self conflict under circumstances of marriage, to their traditionally assigned roles. Even Arundhati Roy’s “God of small things” shows three generations of women projecting silent suffering, revolting and finally making way to herself. Taslima Nasreen’s works are another spectrum of expressive feminism. Post independence Indian woman novelist in English or even in regional genres show educated woman in the changed socio economic conditions, revolting to their exploitation, skeptical to the traditional roles assigned to them, the inevitability of marriage, patriarchy and male chauvinism. Desai has created a feminist discourse of literary writings showing signs of a seething discontentment, hatred for the patriarchal norms of “civilized” human existence, aspiration for liberation from societal and traditional family norms made compulsory for her acceptable existence in the mainstream male dominated society. Her female characters are mostly in search of self-authenticity, independent of the identity that has been dumped on her. Desai however has a typical style of her own to register protest against patriarchal norms.
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