• Dr.Surya K

The present study attempts to relate formulations of spatiality with regard to women’s literature in India endeavouring to map the extent to which colonial conceptions of modernity tend to inform creative writings geared towards the ideal of female independence. The intention is to understand whether such demarcations constructed/consolidated within the colonial past of the country find expressions in women’s writing in the contemporary era and whether they relate to existing feminist discourses of independence. Possibilities for a reworking of gendered spaces and roles and modes of subversion that are organised around an ideological oppositionality would be explored in the context of thematic preoccupations woven into the textual framework of Shobhaa De’s novel Second Thoughts. The analysis would focus on the ways in which spatial divisions pertaining to the female gets contested and how they impact upon the cultural implications for the gendered status of the woman.The study would aim at garnering valuable inputs regarding existing conceptions of normality and acceptability and the textual attempts to define modernity in relation to the woman.

space, woman, gender, tradition, modernity

"Spatiality and the Cultural Dynamics: A Reading of Shobhaa De's Second Thoughts", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 10, page no.e181-e189, October-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2310337.pdf

"Spatiality and the Cultural Dynamics: A Reading of Shobhaa De's Second Thoughts", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 10, page no. ppe181-e189, October-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2310337.pdf