Portrayal of Women as Caged Birds in Indira Goswami’s Novel “The Blue – Necked God”

  • A Kumaravalli Ph.D. Research Scholar, A.V.V.M. Sri Pushpam College, Poondi, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India
  • B R Veeramani Associate Professor of English, A.V.V.M. Sri Pushpam College, Poondi, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India
Keywords: Marginality, Widowhood, Patriarchy, Social issues

Abstract

A bold narrator of human situation and social phenomena, Dr.Goswami carved a niche for herself at an early age. She authored over 25 novels and hundreds of short stories. She did several research works on the Ramayana. She enriched the Indian literary world through her translated works from Assamese to English, Hindi and also from other language to Assamese. She writes about what she has directly observed and tried on her pulses. Her novel the blue necked god was published in 1976. The subject of her stories is generally the outcaste or the waste of the society. Whether it is the Brahmin widows, or share croppers and poor peasants, or forsaken lovers, despondent youth, victims of riot or helpless animals, there has always been an element of pathos in her characters and her fictions. It isthis pathos that provides a fundamental element of beauty to her fiction.

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2018-03-27
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Kumaravalli, A., & Veeramani, B. R. (2018). Portrayal of Women as Caged Birds in Indira Goswami’s Novel “The Blue – Necked God”. Shanlax International Journal of English, 6(2), 1-5. Retrieved from https://www.shanlaxjournals.in/journals/index.php/english/article/view/2913
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