Flipping The Script: Gender Roles in Indian Literature, Portrayal and Interrogation

Name of Author : Ziya Fareed Khoja

Abstract: Gender is an evolving concept and is used to understand the differential place of men and women. The concept of gender and gender roles refers not just to women and men and to the interaction between them, or to divide them, or to cause conflict between them. It is important to understand the difference between them both, not biologically but as individuals, as communities and as surroundings, socially. We can say that gender roles are, Learned Behaviors, influenced Externally. These are conceived, enacted and learnt. And are affected by Age, Class, Race, Ethnicity, and religion and by geographical, economic and political and widely literature fields. In this paper of mine, the theoretical approach towards Gender roles in a broader sense, its portrayal, interrogation, and its evolution in Indian literature and in what way it contributes to construction of gender and gender roles in India in realm of traditional and contemporary context.

Keywords : Gender Roles, Literature, India, Portrayal, Interrogation.

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