Volume : 9, Issue : 3, MAR 2023
DRA ANNUAL NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH, EDUCATION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: OPPORTUNITIES & CHALLENGES
P. SIVAKAMI’S NOVELS: A MIRROR TO DISCREPANCY IN THE INDIAN SOCIETY
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Abstract
Sivakami's novels are a milestone to create awareness among women especially dalit women for their rights in their society as well as their society. Primarily her novels are imbued in the colours of bewildering issues doing naked-dance with full jollity in the Indian society. Whether is financially or socially they are always at the loose end of it. They try to procure care and attention but they garner only the hopeless sympathy which is useless for them. Her works like ‘The Taming of the Women’ and ‘The Grip of Change’ are destroyer of the patriarchy standing tall with their roots so deep that it is very difficult to measure and destroy as well.
But this research is well designed and organised with the sole aim to reach to the source of the roots of this evil of patriarchy and explode it with the vehement energy and willingness of the dalit women. This research shall throw light to scatter the dark secrets of the patriarchy within society and family as well. Many works have depicted the lives of the dalit women but till date no solution has been got for their salvation. Sivakami here makes her desperate efforts to give vent to the suppressed tongue of the dalit sisters of her community across the county.
Keywords
MANLINESS, MARGINALIZATION, GENDER, DISCRIMINATION, PATRIARCHY, DALIT, FEMINISM, SUPPRESSION.
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