Woman's conscience in Bisheweshwar Prasad Koirala's Teen Ghumti

Abstract

Koirala’s novel Teen Ghumti (1968) is a radical text of its time as it gives agency and resistant spirit to women characters. True to the title, the novel is the reflection of the life of the protagonist whose three important decisions concerned with her life mark the resistance to the dominant discourses of the society. This research tries to see the failure of the Western Feminism to understand and address the problem faced by The Third World women who are entangled with the complexities determined by their local contexts. The homogenized category of the global sisterhood, the discourse of Western Feminism is reductionist and monolithic that dismisses the diverse problems of the Third World women like Indramaya. The protagonist is an articulate Third World female voice with whom the shaky edifice of the Western Feminism comes to its fall.