Patriarchal Representation in Lil Bahadur Chhetri's Mountains Painted with Turmeric
Date
2015
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Department of English
Abstract
In the patriarchal-feudal social scenario depicted in Chhetri’s Mountains
Painted with Turmeric, women are subjected to control and domination. Such control
and domination is sustained through the construction of such binaries:
masculinity/femininity, reason/emotion, culture/nature, superior/inferior,
subject/object, self/other, man/land, feudal/ serfs and so on. Women like Maina and
Jhuma do not have access to land, property and decision-making, so they are
controlled and dominated by male intervention. They are treated as commodity to be
possessed and as instruments to carry out male purposes. Their condition is totally
controlled by patriarchal norms and values, thereby being confined into domesticity
occupying a subordinate position to men. Such oppression of woman operates under
the ideological principle of patriarchal masculinity that seeks to control and dominate
women.. Therefore, females like Maina and Jhuma are not only stereotypically
represented but also hegemonically subordinated. The patriarchal ideology is
inflicted upon them in such a way that they are rendered completely helpless and
submissive.
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'Mountains Painted with Turmeric' Novel, Feminism, Patriarchal Society