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| Paper Title: | Women and Society: Depiction of Female Characters in Anita Desai’s In Custody |
| Authors Name: | Bhavya Rattan |
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| Published Paper Id: | IJRTI2212085 |
| Published In: | Volume 7 Issue 12, December-2022 |
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| Abstract: | From India getting its first female prime minister to the revolutionary Chipko Movement initiated by tribal women of Uttarakhand, History acknowledges 1970s as the decade of women's emancipation in the Indian subcontinent. But the wide gap between sanctioned rights given to women and their actual practice in the domestic and public space is highly contested. The booker prize winner and celebrated writer, Anita Desai, unveils the reality of women's existence in her acclaimed novel- In Custody. Though the novel presents the male world of responsibilities and hidden desires placed in between the Hindi and Urdu language debate, the women hover over the text in their momentary yet significant appearances. Be it Deven's wife, who can never openly revolt against the indifference of her husband in their married life, or Nur's second wife Imtiaz Begum, whose poetic talent is overshadowed by the veil of her sex, the mental agony of the womenfolk is captured by Desai poignantly in her novel. With its focus on the women's condition in 1970s India and its depiction in the literary space, the following paper attempts to read Anita Desai's In Custody about the varied women characters it portrays. Using theoretical inputs like Foucault's concept of Heterotopia and Bhabha's concept of mimicry, the research paper tries to bring issues like female identity, rights of women, and the need for expression and identification beyond stereotypes of women to the forefront, issues that are still relevant even after decades of the novel's composition and Indian Independence. |
| Keywords: | Anita Desai, women’s question, post-colonial identity, patriarchal ideology, mimicry, heterotopia. |
| Cite Article: | "Women and Society: Depiction of Female Characters in Anita Desai’s In Custody", International Journal for Research Trends and Innovation (www.ijrti.org), ISSN:2455-2631, Vol.7, Issue 12, page no.564 - 567, December-2022, Available :http://www.ijrti.org/papers/IJRTI2212085.pdf |
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