PERSONIFICATION OF NEW WOMEN IN ANITHA NAIR’SLADIES COUPE

  • L.Gayathri Devi

Abstract

Anita Nair is one of the notable writers in India. She always focuses on the problems of woman in our society. Her maiden novel The Better Man has placed her among the most self-conscious Indian novelists and her second novel Ladies Coupe has achieved a tremendous success in her career. Anitha Nairs Ladies Coupe represents the queer space in colonial and postcolonial Indian fiction. Queer spaces refer to social spaces with tolerance for difference and ambiguity. These are the cracks in the social system where new styles of dressing and living become possible. Queer space is not physical, it is a field of possibility in a social space. In the words of Jasper,

Published
2019-11-15
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Articles