Possession by Kamala Markandaya: An Assessment
Abstract
Kamala Markandaya possesses outstanding skills to convert her day to day experience in her creative expression. As a novelist, she portrays wonderful characters and deals with themes of human relationship, love, marriage and the place of women in the contemporary society. The literary works of Kamala Markandaya have been studied and interpreted differently by various researchers in terms of her feminist concerns, East-West themes, the representation of traditional and modern life and her contribution in the field of Indian fiction. The present paper is an attempt to assess Markandaya’s art of writing novel with reference to her novel Possession.
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