A Study of Female Subjectivity and Agency in Indira Goswami's:  "A City of Its Nakedness" and "The Offspring"

Author(s)	Rashmi Yogi
Country	India
Abstract	: Diversity is one of the significant characteristics in India, e.g. caste, community, culture, tradition, etc., and due to such diversities, social hierarchies can also be seen or felt as aspects relating to female subjectivity have seldom been a part of the literary canon. The paper's centrality is established on the dual subjection and oppression of women protagonists in Goswam's stories. The study of female subjectivity brings forth issues such as sexual surrender and unwilling physical consummation within and outside the marriage, where female characters eventually lack agency and search for their individuality. It also prompts a challenge to ethical boundaries of the imagination to the readers and enables an understanding of the clamour of the female quest for identity. This present paper attempts to locate different forms of oppression in the select short stories of Indira Goswami, i.e. "A City of its Narrative" from the collection Relive Indira Goswami: The Rich Legacy of Her Stories (2014) and "The Offspring" from the collection The Shadow of Kamakhya: Stories (2002)
Keywords	Agency, Oppression, Patriarchy, Sexuality, Subjectivity
Published In	Volume 5, Issue 5, September-October 2023
Published On	2023-10-31
DOI	https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2023.v05i05.8099
Short DOI	https://doi.org/gs3hft

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