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Tale of Female Body: A Critical Study of Taslima Nasreen’s Novels Shodh and French Lover

Author(s) Gaurav Kumar, Bharati Karnik
Country India
Abstract Violence against women is an age old practice which has now become a major issue of concern in today’s world. It has been witnessed that in any kind of war whether it is civil strife, communal clashes or World Wars women have been the major victims of violence, torture and humiliation. Women have been supposed as caring mothers, faithful wives, loving sisters, defensive angels governed by male domination society. India is a society in which father or eldest male is head of the family and descent is reckoned through the male line and as such become vibrant with male female issues especially in joint families. The themes which preoccupy the mind of the writer in the novels Shodh and French Lover are gender bias which eventually result in revenge. Being herself a victim of the patriarchal structures Taslima Nasreen has seen things very closely that how women are given the role of a subordinate where they cannot, in anyway, assert their right to freedom, right to a healthy life and right to equality. Thus, her novel Shodh is a shattering blow to the hegemonic patriarchal set up where a woman’s fidelity is constantly under the shadow of suspicion and doubt thereby subjecting her to physical and mental anguish and pain. This paper focuses upon the different dimensions of violence and their impact on the female protagonist Jhumur, who eventually takes a stand for establishing her own identity in the patriarchal set up. Nasreen’s next novel French Lover tells the story of the patriarchal control exerted on the protagonist Nilanjana by her father, her husband Kishanlal and the domination of friends and lover. This article on French Lover and Shodh focus on the predominant thematic concerns of Nasreen as a feminist. French Lover and Shodh are her medium to convey her views on various sociological, political issues which encompass not only the fate of any nation but also that of women everywhere. The analysis focuses on the failure of marriage in the case of various individuals, especially all the chief characters. Nasreen may be construed as justifying the frustration of Nila at her shabby treatment by Kishanlal and subsequently abandoning her husband. When Nila speaks on behalf of Nasreen, she justifies her liberated escapades as the result of the lack of real love or affection in her husband’s attitude towards her and his former French wife.
Keywords Humiliation, Maltreatment, Oppressed, Subordinate, Transformation
Field Arts
Published In Volume 5, Issue 1, January-February 2023
Published On 2023-01-21
Cite This Tale of Female Body: A Critical Study of Taslima Nasreen’s Novels Shodh and French Lover - Gaurav Kumar, Bharati Karnik - IJFMR Volume 5, Issue 1, January-February 2023. DOI 10.36948/ijfmr.2023.v05i01.1421
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2023.v05i01.1421
Short DOI https://doi.org/grpdpw

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