FEMINISM IN INDIAN FICTION IN ENGLISH : AN OVERVIEW

Abstract

Feminism is strongly self-conscious and operates with an agenda, as do other social positions. It is also important to first state that feminism should not be traditionally regarded in literature. Clearly, we ought to familiarize ourselves with Feminism's core tenets. We need to see at what point it was born and why in history also relevant is the question of procedure. We ought to consider how feminism is a phenomenon, what basic tendencies it exhibits, and how it is continually changing. We need to see, in particular, how feminism expresses itself in English in India and in Indian literature. We will limit ourselves in this attempt to the literature of children and women from 1980 onwards. In Indian English fiction, we will see if there is a feminist philosophy of literature or whether Indian authors in English shift towards a feminist ideology because of their choice of topic and style of language. Here we have to find out that simple cataloguing of the lives and woes of women is not feminism. There is a temptation to group all women's writing into feminist writing, just as it is often wrongly thought that feminists are just females.

Keywords: Building, Feminist, Independent India