General Characteristics in kamala Markandayas Novels
Keywords:
Ideological substance, Realism, Urban Life, Poverty, Womenhood, quest of identity, and the class structure.Abstract
Kamala markandays’ has earned reputation as one of the outstanding woman novelist. Kamala markandaya wrote various fictional short stories and novels, out of which ten were published. Her books deal with post-colonial themes, undertones of the Human condition in a dichotomous world, maaraiges, social distinctions and the westernization of Indianness in modern India. However, Kamala Markandaya’s strength as a novelist decides from her sensitive creation of Individual characters and situations which are simultaneously representative of a larger collective. There were many women writers who have excluded women form the dominating male culture. The differences are notable in the pioneering work of contemporary woman writers. This paper effort is going to make a study of the general characteristics of kamala Markanday’s Novels. This article would talk about suburban characters in Kamala’s novels in two aspects : Realism, The quest for Identity.
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