Performing Gender and Identity: A Reading of Select Women Narratives.

Name of Author : Dr. Neethu Varghese

Abstract: Articulation is prohibited as far as a subaltern woman is concerned. Even a subjective position is denied for the women. By scripting their lives women refuse to be confined by the ideologies constructed for them. By presenting the ruptured accounts of events, contexts and selves, women intend to assert their spaces in the society and also try to write the memories that escaped from the traditional forms of self- representation. The subaltern autobiographies can be seen as powerful tools in exposing the subjugation and suppression that relegate them as others in the female community.

Keywords : Ideologies, identity, self representation, subjugation, suppression

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