Rise of South Asian New Women in Shobhan Bantwal's The Sari Shop Widow

Abstract

The present research explores the idea of feminism in Shobhan Bantwal’s novel which depicts the emergence of revolutionary women of Indian patriarchal society. Her novel deals with the day to day life experiences of women where women are confined in the certain boundary of their house. In the society the so-called superior class males make rules, norms and values and behave accordingly to repress the females. This research shows how the South Asian Women are creating their new identity blurring the lines and limitations that chained their existence within domestic arena made by the male chauvinistic society. In the present era, females are challenging against such domination and deprivation by the means of free sex, free drinks and economic independent. As the women in the South Asian society are restricted in each and every opportunity, this novel reveals the same idea. And the concern of my research is to explore such South Asian women who are rising up as the new women revolting against patriarchy and colonizers. Novel of Bantwal, though deals with the different issues like hybridism, globalization, diaspora, psychoanalysis, etc., postcolonial feminism along with the searching new identity of women in foreign land occupy the central concern on which the research is based upon.