Challenging the Traditional Gender Roles in Pradeep Nepal’s Novel 21 st Century's Sumnima
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Central Department of English Kirtipur, Kathmandu
Abstract
his research work has studied Pradeep Nepal's novel, 21 st Century's Sumnima
as a novel that projects the dynamic and courageous woman to resist the traditional
gender roles, based on patriarchal ideology which is conventional, blind and biased.
Pradeep Nepal has demonstrated a strong woman who is versatile with daring and
revolutionary spirit against the biased concepts of patriarchal ideology. The gendered
ideology is operating as the hegemony, which is the internalized concept of man as
superior and woman as inferior. So, to deconstruct it, women consciousness and their
resisting activities and behaviors are highly advocated in the novel by portraying a
strong woman character, Sumnima. Sumnima is a rebellious lady who is much
concerned about the women value and emancipation to subvert the male hegemonic
supremacy existing in the society. She has crossed through the vicissitudes of life and
has attained the strong conception of maturity. Thus, Sumnima is the symbolic
representation of feminine strength and power.