Portrayal of Women Protagonist: A Study of Kamala Markandaya’s Nectar in a Sieve and Some Inner Fury
Abstract
Kamala Markandaya is regarded as a celebrated Indian English Novelist. She gained national and international popularity from readers and critics for her outstanding contribution in the field of Indian English novel. All her eleven novels deal with the theme of East-West encounter, rootlessness, human relationships, poverty, hunger, exploitation and female awakening. Her women protagonists possess life-affirming qualities and indescribable strength. Her understanding of woman sensibility and representation of woman attitude in the social, political and spiritual crisis has made her different and unique novelist other than her contemporaries. In her fiction, Markandaya tries to awake the consciousness of Indian Woman against the orthodox and traditional society. Therefore, her writing reflects the spirit of Indian woman and expresses her own experience as a woman in the present time. The present paper focuses on two woman protagonists Rukmani from the Nectar in a Sieve and Mirabai from Some Inner Fury.
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