Cross cultural consciousness in select novels of manju kapur meera syal and sunetra gupta

Abstract

The thesis entitled Cross-Cultural Consciousness in Select Novels of newlineManju Kapur, Meera Syal and Sunetra Gupta is a critical work that unfolds the newlineissues related with the culture of different regions and also the effect of cultural newlinechanges within the home land. This is a cultural study that concentrates on newlineFeminism and Psychology. The thesis highlights the persistent efforts of the newlineauthors to unearth the worth of women, which will be a remarkable contribution newlinetowards the emancipation and empowerment of women. newlineThis thesis studies the novels from a cultural perspective by applying newlinevarious theories like cultural theory and feminist theory and by taking various newlineapproaches to criticism. It comprises the following seven chapters: newline Introduction, The Images of New Women in Manju Kapur s Difficult newlineDaughters and A Married Woman, Diasporic Consciousness in Meera Syal s newlineAnita and Me and Life Isn t All Ha Ha Hee Hee, The Sense of Longing and newlineBelonging in Sunetra Gupta s Memories of Rain and A Sin of Color, newline Converging Divergence, Creative Techniques, and Summation. The newlineintroductory chapter gives a brief account of Indian writing in English, introduces newlinethe authors and the novels selected for this study. The second chapter records the newlinesufferings of women under the patriarchal society and their struggle to emerge as newline new women. newlineThe third chapter analyses the diasporic elements from the select novels newlineof Meera Syal. The fourth chapter registers the sense of longing and belonging in newlinethe select novels of Sunetra Gupta. The fifth chapter traces the similarities and newlinedissimilarities among the three writers selected for study. The chapter Creative newlineTechniques, examines the techniques adopted by the three writers. The final newlinechapter sums up all the chapters and provides an account of the findings of the newlineresearch. For documentation MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers newlineSeventh Edition is followed. newline