Volume VI Special Issue V June 2026

Name of Author : Vasantha Priya.N, Dr.V.Vimala

Title of the paper : PURSUIT OF SELFHOOD: FEMINIST RESISTANCE IN ANITA NAIRS FICTION

Abstract: Anita Nair reenacts feminism with the aid of delving deep into the visceral and psychological reviews of her female characters, wherein she regularly engages with, via her writings. Her novels cover the issues associated with womens oppression in preferred, their guilt in phrases of masculinity and femininity, and womens patriarchal oppression specially. The majority of Nairs female protagonists undergo a transitional phase that establishes them as individuals of their pursuit of identity who come upon countless boundaries before finishing their undertaking or succumbing to existences vagaries. Anita Nairs specific representations of centre magnificence girls and their family concerns are examined so one can take note of the thinning traces among gender discrimination, marriage dilemmas, and woman identification in those fictional woman characters. She speaks out against issues relating to girl’s positions inside households and their rights to equality compared to guys in various spheres of social life. Nair elevates the woman to a cult determine, fighting conventional taboos, societal and joint own family limitations, and numerous other constraints imposed through patriarchy. It is a essential examination of the protagonists choice for acknowledgement in their price and self worth as economically self-sufficient people in a male dominated society. It studies their resistance to dominant relationships and their fights for social space and acceptability, ultimately main to the development in their social identity as a form of self fulfilment. This paper seeks to free up females from the duty obligations placed or imposed on them, often with or without their awareness. Anita Nairs writings portray women as having a awesome identity inside a patriarchal society. This paper examines the impact of feminism on the writings of Anita Nair.

Keywords : Equality, Femininity, Patriarchy, Resistance, Social lifestyles.

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Page Number : 45-49