On the Threshold: Gendered Spaces in Home, by Manju Kapur
On the Threshold: Gendered Spaces in Home, by Manju Kapur
Author(s): Elisabetta MarinoSubject(s): Gender Studies, Literary Texts, Fiction, Studies of Literature, Sociology, Novel, Family and social welfare, Nationalism Studies, Social Informatics, Sociology of Culture, British Literature
Published by: Editura Alma Mater
Keywords: Gendered spaces; Home; Manju Kapur; marginalized masculinities; modernity; tradition;
Summary/Abstract: Starting from her first, award-winning novel, Difficult Daughters (1998), Manju Kapur has always chosen to focus her narratives on the controversial condition of women in the context of Indian patriarchal society. Moreover, her characters’ struggle to balance tradition and modernity, their attempts at reconciling the demands of their families and their own individual aspirations, have often been reflected in the tension between the spaces women are entitled to inhabit and those from which they are supposedly excluded. By employing the approach of close reading and critical analysis, this essay sets out to explore the way physical and metaphorical thresholds are trespassed in Kapur’s Home (2006). Therefore, family values symbolically identified with domestic spaces are challenged and transgressed to attain the freedom and self-fulfillment the characters long for.
Journal: Cultural Perspectives - Journal for Literary and British Cultural Studies in Romania
- Issue Year: 2021
- Issue No: 26
- Page Range: 161-170
- Page Count: 10
- Language: English
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