Indian Women Novelists: A Feminist Psychoanalytical Study

"The present study employs a gynocritical strategy to examine the six novels by contemporary Indian women novelists, namely, Shashi Deshpandes The ""Dark Holds No Terrors"" (1980), Shobha Des ""Socialite Evenings"" (1989), Githa Hariharans ""The Thousand Faces of Night"" (1992), Mrinal Pandes ""Daughters Daughter"" (1993), Manju Kapurs ""Difficult Daughters"" (1998) and Arundhati Roys ""The God of Small Things"" (1997). The aim is to focus on womens experiences as women in the contemporary Indian society which is in a transitional phase-holding on to the traditional views yet inclining towards the forces of modernity like globalisation, materialism, consumerism and feminism. Efforts are made to record the emerging female voices using the tenets of the new women-centred psychologists, which suit the Indian cultural context."