International Journal of Research in Social Sciences
  • Year: 2015
  • Volume: 5
  • Issue: 5

Identity Crisis of Women in Kamala Markandaya's Nectar in A Sieve and The Golden Honey Comb

  • Author:
  • B. Sangamitra1, N.S Vishnu Priya2
  • Total Page Count: 14
  • Page Number: 518 to 531

1Internal Full Time Research Associate, School of Social Sciences and Languages, VIT University, Vellore

2Assistant Professor(Senior), School of Social Sciences and Languages, VIT University, Vellore

Online published on 10 March, 2016.

Abstract

Indian English literature portrays the struggle of women in everyday life from the time immemorial. Kamala Markandaya's novels create intense awareness of women and their identity. There are many writers who write on women, Kamala Markandaya is a pioneer of feministic writers like Anita Desai, Shashi Deshpande and Aundhathi Roy etc. The aim of the paper is to analyse the identity crisis of women in the novels Nectar in a sieve and The Golden Honey Comb. In these two novels Kamala Markandaya highlights the changing identity of women due to the social and economic conditions.

Keywords

Women, Feminism, Identity Crisis, Awareness, Struggle