Exploration Of Self: A Third World Feminist Reading Of Anubhav's To Live Once Again

Abstract

To Live Once Again by Janyanti Anubhav presents the struggle of Yamini Pant for equal rights, position and adamant efforts against the subordination of women in Indian society. It presents the idea of searching equal position of women against the traditional society and creation of self-identity by resenting any sort of specific forms of exploitation and female subordination initiated by male ideology. The novel moves around the sufferings and hardships of Yamini Pant due to the false internalized traditional gender roles which created ichotomies between the so-called masculine and feminine while actualizing her dream of becoming a classical dance teacher belong ingto a sophisticated family. However, masculine and feminine are all traits that are learned, but not in-born. In this regard, this research has close relation with Third World Feminism as a primary theoretical tool which delineates the unique experience of the Third World woman Yamini Pant like domestic violence, discrimination, dowry murders and others in the Indian society. Thus, this research presents the resistance against the subordination of female represented by Yamini Pant who develops self identity inanIndian society.